Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/maʀg

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 *mazgą.

Noun

*maʀg n^[1]

marrow

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*maʀg
Genitive	*maʀgas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*maʀg	*maʀgu
Accusative	*maʀg	*maʀgu
Genitive	*maʀgas	*maʀgō
Dative	*maʀgē	*maʀgum
Instrumental	*maʀgu	*maʀgum

Descendants

Old English: mærh, mearh, mearg
- Middle English: mary, marow, marowe, marowȝ
  - English: marrow
  - Scots: merch, mery, mairch
Old Frisian: *march, merch, merg
- West Frisian: murch, march, moarch
Old Saxon: marg
- Middle Low German: marg
Old Dutch: marg
- Middle Dutch: march, merch
  - Dutch: merg
    - Afrikaans: murg
Old High German: marg
- Middle High German: marc, march
  - Central Franconian: Märch, March (Moselle Franconian), Mark (many dialects via German)
  - German: Mark
    - → Saterland Frisian: Maak
  - Luxembourgish: Muerch
  - Vilamovian: miök
  - Yiddish: מאַרך (markh)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 313: “PWGmc *mazg”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 313: “PWGmc *mazg”

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