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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/massing

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 *massjā (“brass”) +‎ *-ing.

Noun

*massing m[1]

  1. brass

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *massing
Genitive *massingas
Singular Plural
Nominative *massing *massingō, *massingōs
Accusative *massing *massingā
Genitive *massingas *massingō
Dative *massingē *massingum
Instrumental *massingu *massingum

Alternative reconstructions

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Old English: mæsling, mæslen, mæstling (altered by -ling, intrusive -t-)
    • Middle English: mestling, maslyn, mastelyn, mastling, meslin
  • Old Saxon: messing, missing, missinc
  • Old Dutch: messink
    • Middle Dutch: messinc, missinc, messanc, messinge
  • Old High German: messing, messinc
    • Middle High German: messinc, mezzinc, missinc
      • German: Messing (see there for further descendants)
  • → Proto-Slavic: *mosędzь[1] (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Lloyd, Albert L., Lühr, Rosemarie (1988) “messing”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (in German), Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 362-363: “westgerm. *mas(s)ingvoraus”
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*masjinga-(?)”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 356
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