Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bodaskapi

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *budaskapiz. Equivalent to *bod +‎ *-skapi.

Noun

*bodaskapi m [1]

Inflection

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Descendants

Old English: bodsċipe
Old Saxon: bodskepi
- Low German: Böskupp
Old Dutch: *bodascap
- Middle Dutch: bōdeschap
  - Dutch: boodschap
Old High German: botascaf
- German: Botschaft

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 132: “PWGmc *bodaskapi”

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[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 132: “PWGmc *bodaskapi”