Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hwōstō

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *hwōstô.

Noun

*hwōstō m [1]

cough

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hwōstō	*hwōstan
Accusative	*hwōstan	*hwōstan
Genitive	*hwōstini	*hwōstanō
Dative	*hwōstini	*hwōstum
Instrumental	*hwōstini	*hwōstum

Descendants

Old English: hwōsta
Old Saxon: *hwōsto
- Middle Low German: hwōste
Old Dutch: [Term?]
- Middle Dutch: hoeste
  - Dutch: hoest
Old High German: huosto
- German: Husten

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *hwōstō”

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[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *hwōstō”