Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gras

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 *grasą.

Noun

*gras n^[1]

grass

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*gras(a)
Genitive	*grasas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*gras(a)	*grasu
Accusative	*gras(a)	*grasu
Genitive	*grasas	*grasō
Dative	*grasē	*grasum
Instrumental	*grasu	*grasum

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: græs, gærs, gres — late Kentish, gers — Vespasian Psalter Mercian, late Kentish
- Middle English: gras, grasse, gresse, gres, gers, grece, græs, grace, gars, grys, grisse, grese
  - English: grass
    - Tok Pisin: gras, garas
    - Fiji Hindi: giraas
  - Scots: gress, gres, grais, graiss, grase, gers, girs
  - ⇒ Yola: grass cock
Old Frisian: gers, gres
- North Frisian:
  Föhr-Amrum: gäärs
  Mooring: gjars
  Sylt: Gērs
- Saterland Frisian: Gäärs
- West Frisian: gers, gjers (Wood), jers
Old Saxon: gras
- Middle Low German: gras
  - Dutch Low Saxon: gras
  - German Low German: Gras
  - Plautdietsch: Grauss
Old Dutch: *gras
- Middle Dutch: gras, gars, gers
  - Dutch: gras
    - Afrikaans: gras
    - Berbice Creole Dutch: grasa
    - Jersey Dutch: x'rās, grās
    - Negerhollands: graas, gras
    - → Sranan Tongo: grasi
      - → Saramaccan: gaási
  - Limburgish: graas
  - West Flemish: ges, gas
  - Zealandic: gos
Old High German: gras
- Middle High German: gras
  - Alemannic German: Gras
    Italian Walser: gras, gros
  - Bavarian:
    Cimbrian: gras, grass
    
    Mòcheno: gros
    
    Udinese: gròs, gros, groos
  - Central Franconian:
    Hunsrik: Graas
    
    Luxembourgish: Gras
  - East Central German:
    Vilamovian: gros
  - East Franconian:
  - German: Gras
  - Rhine Franconian: Gras
    Frankfurterisch: [kʀɑːs], (older) [kʀɔːs]
    
    Pennsylvania German: Graas
  - Yiddish: גראָז (groz)

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 147: “PWGmc *gras”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 147: “PWGmc *gras”

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