Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fast

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Alternative forms

*fastu
*fastī (Old Saxon and Old High German)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *fastuz (“secure, firm, fixed”).

Adjective

*fast^[1]

fixed, fast

Inflection

a-stem
Singular	Masculine
Nominative	*fast
Genitive	*fastas
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*fast	*fastu	*fast
Accusative	*fastanā	*fastā	*fast
Genitive	*fastas	*fasteʀā	*fastas
Dative	*fastumē	*fasteʀē	*fastumē
Instrumental	*fastu	*fasteʀu	*fastu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*fastē	*fastō	*fastu
Accusative	*fastā	*fastā	*fastu
Genitive	*fasteʀō	*fasteʀō	*fasteʀō
Dative	fastēm, fastum	fastēm, fastum	fastēm, fastum
Instrumental	fastēm, fastum	fastēm, fastum	fastēm, fastum

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: fæst
- Middle English: fæst, fest, fast
  - Scots: fest, fast
  - English: fast
Old Frisian: fest
- Saterland Frisian: fääst
- West Frisian: fêst
Old Saxon: fast
- Middle Low German: fast, vast
  - Low German: fast
Old Dutch: fast
- Middle Dutch: vast
  - Dutch: vast
    - Afrikaans: vas
Old High German: fast
- Middle High German: fast, vast
  - Central Franconian: fass, fast

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 131: “PWGmc *fast”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 131: “PWGmc *fast”

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