Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aspō

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

from Proto-Indo-European *Hosp- (“aspen, poplar”).

Noun

*aspō f [1]

aspen

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *aspō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*aspō	*aspôz
vocative	*aspō	*aspôz
accusative	*aspǭ	*aspōz
genitive	*aspōz	*aspǫ̂
dative	*aspōi	*aspōmaz
instrumental	*aspō	*aspōmiz

Descendants

Old English: æspe
- Middle English: asp, aspen
  - English: aspen, asp
Old Saxon: *aspa
- Middle Low German: aspe, espe, hespe
  - Low German: Äsp
Old Dutch: *aspa, *espa
- Middle Dutch: espe
  - Dutch: esp
Old High German: aspa
- Middle High German: aspe
  - German: Espe
Old Norse: ǫsp
- Icelandic: ösp
- Faroese: øsp
- Norwegian Nynorsk: osp
- Norwegian Bokmål: asp, osp
- Swedish: asp
- Danish: asp

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aspō- ~ *apsō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 39

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aspō- ~ *apsō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 39