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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wapsu

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 *wapsō.

Noun

*wapsu f[1]

  1. wasp
    Synonym: *waspijā

Inflection
ō-stem
Singular
Nominative *wapsu
Genitive *wapsā
Singular Plural
Nominative *wapsu *wapsō
Accusative *wapsā *wapsā
Genitive *wapsā *wapsō
Dative *wapsē *wapsōm, *wapsum
Instrumental *wapsu *wapsōm, *wapsum

Derived terms

Descendants
  • Old English: wæps, wæsp, wæfs
    • Middle English: wasp, wappes, waps, waspe
      • English: wasp, waps
        • Sranan Tongo: waswasi (reduplicated)
      • Scots: wasp, wesp
  • Old Frisian: *waps
    • Saterland Frisian: Häspe, Gäspe
    • West Frisian: waps
  • Old Saxon: waspa
    • Middle Low German: wopse
  • Old Dutch: wapsa (attested in Latin text as uuapces)
  • Old High German: wafsa
  • → Old French: guespe, vespe, wespe, wapce (partially) (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Wespe”, 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 788: “wg. *wab-sō”
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