Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mōrubaʀi

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 Latin mōrus (“mulberry, blackberry”) +‎ *baʀi (“berry”).[1]

Noun

*mōrubaʀi n

mulberry

Inflection

Neuter ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mōrubaʀi
Genitive	*mōrubaʀjas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mōrubaʀi	*mōrubaʀju
Accusative	*mōrubaʀi	*mōrubaʀju
Genitive	*mōrubaʀjas	*mōrubaʀjō
Dative	*mōrubaʀjē	*mōrubaʀjum
Instrumental	*mōrubaʀju	*mōrubaʀjum

Descendants

Old English: mōrberġe, mōrberie, mōrberiġe
- Middle English: mulbery, molbery, mulberie, mulbere
  - English: mulberry
Old Saxon: mulberi
- Middle Low German: mûlbêre, môlbêre
  - German Low German: Muulbeer
  - Plautdietsch: Mulbäa
  - → Danish: morbær
    - → Icelandic: mórber
    - → Faroese: morber
  - → Norwegian: morbær
  - → Swedish: mullbär
    - → Finnish: mulperi
Old Dutch: *mōrberi
- Middle Dutch: moerbeye, moerbesie
  - Dutch: moerbei, moerbezie
    - Afrikaans: moerbei
    - → Indonesian: murbei
    - → Malay: murbei
    - → West Frisian: moerbei
Old High German: mūrberi, mōrberi, mōrber
- Middle High German: mūlber
  - German: Maulbeere
  - Hunsrik: Maulbeer

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Maulbeere”, 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 468

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[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Maulbeere”, 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 468