Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/habbjō

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

Alternative forms

*haffjō, *habuz, *hafuz, *haffju

Etymology

From *habbjan (“to lift, raise”) +‎ *-ō.[1]

Noun

*habbjō m[1]

barm, yeast
Synonyms: *bermō, *jestu

Declension

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*habbjō
Genitive	habbjini, habbjan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*habbjō	*habbjan
Accusative	*habbjan	*habbjan
Genitive	habbjini, habbjan	*habbjanō
Dative	habbjini, habbjan	*habbjum
Instrumental	habbjini, habbjan	*habbjum

Descendants

Old English: hæf, hæfe, hefe
Old Saxon: *hebbio, *heffio
- Middle Low German: hebben, heffen
Old Dutch: *hebbo, *heffo, *hevo
- Middle Dutch: heffe, hēve
  - Dutch: hef
Old High German: hevo, heffa, heffe, hephe, heve; heffen, hefun, hephen
- Middle High German: heve, hefe; hebe, hefe; hepfen
  - Bavarian: Hefn, Hepfa, Hepfn
  - Alemannic German: Hebi
  - German: Hefe
  - Hunsrik: Heb
  - Luxembourgish: Hief
  - Yiddish: הייוון (heyvn)

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Hefe”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 29: “wg. *haf-jön”

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[EWddS-1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Hefe”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 29: “wg. *haf-jön”