Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/obaet

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 Proto-Germanic *ubetą or *ubatją, from *uba- +‎ *etaną (“to eat”)[1] or *atjaną (“to cause to eat; to pasture, graze”), respectively, compare *fraetan (“to devour, consume”). Presumably related to Proto-Slavic *ovoťe (“fruit”).

Noun

*obaet n

fruit
Synonyms: *applu, *fruht
nut
Synonym: *hnut

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*obaet
Genitive	*obaetas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*obaet	*obaetu
Accusative	*obaet	*obaetu
Genitive	*obaetas	*obaetō
Dative	*obaetē	*obaetum
Instrumental	*obaetu	*obaetum

Alternative reconstructions

*obaati

Descendants

Old English: ofett, ofet, ofæt, obet
- Middle English: ovet, ofet, ofvet
  - English: ovest (dialectal)
Old Frisian: *ovet
- West Frisian: oefte
Old Saxon: *ovet
- Middle Low German: ōvet, āvet, ōft
  - German Low German: Aaft, Ooft
Old Dutch: ovit
- Middle Dutch: ōvet, ooft
  - Dutch: ooft
Old High German: obaz, obez
- Middle High German: obez, obz
  - Alemannic German: Obs
    - Swabian: Obschd
  - Bavarian: Obs, Obscht, Obst
    - Mòcheno: ouvest
  - Central Franconian: Obs, Obst, Ofs, Ubst, Uebst, Uebscht, Ust
    - Kölsch: Obs
  - German: Obst, Obs (dialectal)
    - → German Low German: Obst
  - Hunsrik: Oobst
  - Luxembourgish: Uebst
  - Pennsylvania German: Obscht
  - Rhine Franconian: Uebst
    - Palatine German: Obs, Oubs, Obscht, Oubscht
  - Yiddish: אויפּס (oyps), אויבס (oybs)
→? Proto-Slavic: *ovoťe

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Obst”, 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 512: “*uba-ǣtaz”

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[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Obst”, 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 512: “*uba-ǣtaz”