Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/arfō

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

Uncertain; possibly inherited from Proto-Germanic *arfô, or borrowed from Latin ervum.

Noun

*arfō m

1. chickweed

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*arfō
Genitive	*arfini, *arfan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*arfō	*arfan
Accusative	*arfan	*arfan
Genitive	*arfini, *arfan	*arfanō
Dative	*arfini, *arfan	*arfum
Instrumental	*arfini, *arfan	*arfum

Descendants

• Old English: earfan pl
• Old Frisian: *arfa
  • Saterland Frisian: arf, arve
• Old Saxon: *arfo
  • Middle Low German: *arfe
    • German Low German: Arf
    • →? Old Norse: arfi, ᛅᚱᚠᛁ (arfi) — nominative singular, ᛅᚱᚠᛅ (arfa) — dative/accusative/genitive singular, ᛅᚱᚠᛅᛦ (arfaʀ), ᛆᚱᚠᛆᛦ (arfaʀ), ᛅᚱᚠᛅᚱ (arfar) — nominative plural
      • Icelandic: arfi
      • Faroese: arvi
      • Norwegian: arve
      • Old Swedish: arve
        • Swedish: arv (dialectal)
      • Danish: arve
• Old Dutch: *arfo
  • Middle Dutch: *erfe
    • Dutch: erf