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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/alahsinā

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

Presumably borrowed from Latin aloxinum,[1] if not the other way around, or possibly from *alh (“protection; temple”)[2] or *algōn (“to defend, protect”) +‎ *sinn (“sense, perception”, agent suffix) +‎ *-jā for its alleged mental curative properties, compare *warjamōdā (“wormwood”), perhaps from *warjan (“to defend against”) +‎ *mōd (“mind, sense”).

Noun

*alahsinā f

  1. wormwood
    Synonym: *warjamōdā

Inflection
ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *alahsinā
Genitive *alahsinōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *alahsinā *alahsinōn
Accusative *alahsinōn *alahsinōn
Genitive *alahsinōn *alahsinōnō
Dative *alahsinōn *alahsinōm, *alahsinum
Instrumental *alahsinōn *alahsinōm, *alahsinum
  • *alahsan (< Latin aloxanus, alosanus)
    • Old High German: alahsan m

Descendants
  • Old Saxon: *alasina
    • Middle Low German: alsen, alsene
      • German Low German:
        Westmünsterländisch: Als, Alsen, Alsten, Alpsen
  • Old Dutch: *alasina
    • Middle Dutch: alsene
      • Dutch: alsem, alsene, alsine, alsen, alssen
        • Afrikaans: alsem
        • → West Frisian: alsem
        • → Japanese: アルセム (arusemu)
  • Old High German: alahsna, alesina
    • Middle High German: alsen, alsene
      • German: Alsem
      • Luxembourgish: Alzem
  • →? Medieval Latin: aloxinum, aloxanum, aloxmum, aloxanus, alosanus (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Alsem”, 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 22
  2. Franck, Johannes (1892) “alsem”, in Etymologisch woordenboek der nederlandsche taal (in Dutch), The Hague: 's-Gravenhage: Martinus Nijhoff
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