Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skōh

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

From Proto-Germanic *skōhaz.

Noun

*skōh m^[1]

shoe

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*skōh
Genitive	*skōhas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*skōh	skōhō, skōhōs
Accusative	*skōh	*skōhā
Genitive	*skōhas	*skōhō
Dative	*skōhē	*skōhum
Instrumental	*skōhu	*skōhum

Descendants

Old English: sċōh
- Middle English: sho, shoo
  - Scots: shae
  - English: shoe
Old Frisian: skōch, skō
- Saterland Frisian: Skou, Schou
- West Frisian: skoech
Old Saxon: skōh
- Middle Low German: schō
  - German Low German: Schoh
Old Dutch: *scuoh, *scuo
- Middle Dutch: scoech, scoe
  - Dutch: schoen
    - Afrikaans: skoen
  - Limburgish: sjoon
Old High German: skuoh, scūoh, skūo
- Middle High German: schuoch, schuo
  - Alemannic German:
    Alsatian: Schüe
    Swabian: Schuah
  - Central Franconian: Schohn, Schuh, Schoh (Moselle Franconian)
  - German: Schuh
  - Luxembourgish: Schong
  - Yiddish: שוך (shukh)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 314: “PWGmc *skōh”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 314: “PWGmc *skōh”

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