Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/unsar

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 *unseraz.

Determiner

*unsar [1]

our, ours, of us (all)

Inflection

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: ūser, ūre
- Middle English: oure
  - Scots: wir
  - English: our
Old Frisian: ūser, ūse
- West Frisian: ús
Old Saxon: ūsa, ūse
Old Dutch: unsa
- Middle Dutch: onse
  - Dutch: ons
    - Afrikaans: ons
Old High German: unsēr
- Middle High German: unser
  - Alemannic German: öise, öisere, oisere
  - German: unser

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*unsar”

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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 125: “*unsar”