Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/lewô

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.wɔːː/
• Rhymes: -e.wɔːː

From Proto-Indo-European *léwh₁-on-, from *lewh₁- (“to cut off, loosen”). Particularly close cognate semantically with Sanskrit लवित्र (lavítra, “sickle”), and additionally related to Proto-Germanic *leusaną (“to lose”); see the latter for more cognates.^[1]

*lewô m^[1]

1. scythe

• *lawwō
• *lewō

• Proto-West Germanic: *lewō
  • Old Saxon: *lewo
    • Middle Low German: lē, lēhe
      • Northern Low Saxon: ley, Lee
• Old Norse: lé
  • Icelandic: ljár
  • Faroese: líggi
  • Norwegian: ljå
  • Old Swedish: līe, lē
    • Swedish: lie, le
  • Old Danish: lē
    • Danish: le, ljå
  • Elfdalian: ljå
  • Jamtish: ljá
  • Gutnish: leie
  • Scanian: lé, ljá

From Latin leō. This form can be reconstructed from the Gothic and West Germanic forms. Old Norse seems to have re-borrowed the term from a Romance language, and the expected form *lé is not attested. Most West Germanic languages lengthened the first vowel, yielding *lēwō, althought both forms can be reconstructed.

• IPA^(key): /ˈle.wɔːː/

*lewô m

1. lion

• Proto-West Germanic: *lewō, *lēwō
  • Old English: lēo
  • Old Frisian: *lēwa, *lēu, *lāwa, *lāu
    • North Frisian: lau, lööw
    • Saterland Frisian: Leeuwe
    • West Frisian: liuw
  • Old Saxon: *lewo, *lēwo, *lēo, *lāwo, *lāo
    • Middle Low German: löuwe, lowe, lou, löe, louwe, lauwe, lewe, leuwe
      • German Low German:

        Low Prussian: Lau

        Plautdietsch: Leiw

        Westphalian:

        Sauerländisch: Loiwe, Loibe (Brilon), Löwe (Niedersfeld, Bestwig, Felbecke, Wenden), Löüwe (Attendorn, Drolshagen, Olpe)

        East Westphalian: Löwen (Lippe), Lȫwe (Ravensberg)

      • → Danish: løve
        • → Greenlandic: løveq
      • → Estonian: lõvi
      • → Faroese: leyva, løva
      • → Latgalian: ļovs
      • → Latvian: lauva
        • → Livonian: louv
      • → Norwegian:

        Norwegian Bokmål: løve

  • Old Dutch: lēwo
    • Middle Dutch: lêwe
      • Dutch: leeuw
        • Afrikaans: leeu
        • Negerhollands: leeuw
        • → Papiamentu: leeuw (dated)
        • → Sranan Tongo: lew
      • Limburgish: lieëf, liew
      • West Flemish: lêeuw
  • Old High German: lewo, lēo
    • Middle High German: lewe, lebe, löuwe
      • Alemannic German: Leew, Löi
      • Bavarian:
      • Central Franconian:

        Hunsrik: Leeb

        Luxembourgish: Léiw

      • East Central German:

        Upper Saxon German:

        Vilamovian: ływ

      • East Franconian:
      • German: Löwe
      • Rhine Franconian: Leeb

        Frankfurterisch: [leːp]

        Pennsylvania German: Leeb

      • Yiddish: לייב (leyb)
      • Kölsch: Löv [ɫœf]
• Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐍅𐌰 (laiwa)