Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/iuwar

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 *izweraz.

Determiner

*iuwar [1]

your, yours, of you (all)

Inflection

This determiner needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: ēower
- English: your
Old Frisian: jūwe
- West Frisian: jim
Old Saxon: īuwar, gīuwar, euwar
- Middle Low German: juwe
Old Dutch: iuwa, *juwa
- Middle Dutch: uwe, juwe, jouwe
  - Dutch: uw, jouw
    - Afrikaans: jou
Old High German: iuwar
- Middle High German: iuwer
  - Alemannic German: öie
  - Cimbrian: ôar
  - German: euer
  - Luxembourgish: är
  - Yiddish: אײַער‎ (ayer)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 125: “*iuwar”

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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 125: “*iuwar”