Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mespilā

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin mespila, mespilum.

Noun

*mespilā f

medlar

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mispilā
Genitive	*mispilōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mispilā	*mispilōn
Accusative	*mispilōn	*mispilōn
Genitive	*mispilōn	*mispilōnō
Dative	*mispilōn	mispilōm, mispilum
Instrumental	*mispilōn	mispilōm, mispilum

Derived terms

*mespilabaum

Descendants

Old English: *mespile
- Middle English: mespile
  - English: mesple
Old Saxon: mispela
- Middle Low German: mispel, mispele
  - German Low German: Mispel
  - → Danish: mispel
  - → Finnish: mispeli
Old Dutch: *mespila, *mispila
- Middle Dutch: mespele, mispel
  - Dutch: mispel
    - → Papiamentu: mespel, mespu, mispel
    - → Sranan Tongo: mispu
      - → Aukan: mesupu
  - Limburgish: mispel
Old High German: mespila, mespil, nespila, nespil, mispila
- Middle High German: mispel, mëspel, nëspel, mëstel, mistel
  - German: Mispel, Mißpel, Mespel, Meßpel (till later 18th century often), Espel, Hespel, Haspel, Nespel, Nispel, Wispel (regional)
  - → Old Czech: mišpile, mišpule, nyšpule
    - Czech: mišpule, older often nyšpule
  - → Hungarian: naspolya, formerly by region náspolya, naszpolya, nászpolya, noszpolya. lasponya, lásponya, miszpulya, nespolya
  - → Polish: nieszpułka, nieszpułk, nieszpuła, niesplik, myszpuła
  - → Slovak: mišpuľa, dialectally nyšpuľa, nešpuľa
  - → Lower Sorbian: hušpula, rušpula
  - → Upper Sorbian: nyšpula, nyšpla, nyspla, myšpla
- → Serbo-Croatian: nȅšpula, nȅšpola, mešpula, nespula, nespola, nješpula
- → Slovene: nẹ̑šplja