Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/treuwu

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 *trewwō.

Noun

*treuwu f^[1]

fidelity, pledge

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*treuwu
Genitive	*treuwā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*treuwu	*treuwō
Accusative	*treuwā	*treuwā
Genitive	*treuwā	*treuwō
Dative	*treuwē	treuwōm, treuwum
Instrumental	*treuwu	treuwōm, treuwum

Descendants

Old English: trēow, trȳw
- ⇒ Middle English: trewe, triewe, true (via singularized plural trēowa)
  - ⇒ English: truce (via plural trewes, triwes, trues)
Old Frisian: triōwe, triūwe, trouwe
- Saterland Frisian: Trjoue, Tjoue
- West Frisian: trou
Old Saxon: triuwa, treuwa, treuwe
- Middle Low German: truwe, trouwe
  - Low German: Treue
    - German Low German: Troo
  - → Old Norse: trú
    - Icelandic: trú
    - Faroese: trúgv
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: tru
      - → Norwegian Bokmål: tru
    - Swedish: tro
    - Danish: tro
      - Norwegian Bokmål: tro
Old Dutch: triuwa
- Middle Dutch: trouwe, trūwe
  - Dutch: trouw
    - Afrikaans: trou
Old High German: triuwa, trūwa, trūa
- Middle High German: triuwe
  - German: Treue
  - Luxembourgish: Trei
→ Vulgar Latin: *trewa
- Old French: triwe, trive, trieve
  - Middle French: trieve
    - French: trêve
- Occitan: treva, trev
- Medieval Latin: trewa

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 66: “PWGmc [...] *treuwō- (nom. sg. *treu??)”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 66: “PWGmc [...] *treuwō- (nom. sg. *treu??)”

[1]