Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bast

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

Uncertain; suggested to be an alteration of Proto-Indo-European *bʰask- ~ *bʰasḱ- (“bundle, heap, load”), but this is disputed.[1]

Noun

*bast m

rope, fibre

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*bast
Genitive	*bastas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*bast	bastō, bastōs
Accusative	*bast	*bastā
Genitive	*bastas	*bastō
Dative	*bastē	*bastum
Instrumental	*bastu	*bastum

Descendants

Old English: bæst
- Middle English: bast, baste
  - English: bast, bass
  - Scots: bass
Old Saxon: bast
- Middle Low German: bast
  - → Old Norse: bast
    - Faroese: bast
    - Old Swedish: bast
      - Swedish: bast
    - Old Danish: bast
      - Danish: bast
Old Dutch: *bast
- Middle Dutch: bast
  - Dutch: bast
Old High German: bast
- German: Bast

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*basta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 55

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*basta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 55