Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/rōsā

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

Borrowed from Latin rosa (“rose”).

Noun

*rōsā f

1. rose

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*rōsā
Genitive	*rōsōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*rōsā	*rōsōn
Accusative	*rōsōn	*rōsōn
Genitive	*rōsōn	*rōsōnō
Dative	*rōsōn	*rōsōm, *rōsum
Instrumental	*rōsōn	*rōsōm, *rōsum

Descendants

• Old English: rōse
  • Middle English: rose, roose, rosse, roos, ros
    • English: rose (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: rose
• Old Frisian: rōs, rōse
  • West Frisian: roas
• Old Saxon: rōsa
  • Middle Low German: rôse
    • German Low German: Reose
    • Plautdietsch: Roos
    • → Latvian: roze
    • → Old Norse: rós, rósa
      • Icelandic: rós
      • Faroese: rósa
      • Norwegian: rose
      • Danish: rose, rosé
        • → Greenlandic: ruusa
      • Old Swedish: ros
        • Swedish: ros (see there for further descendants)
      • Elfdalian: ruos
• Old Dutch: *rōsa
  • Middle Dutch: rôse, roos
    • Dutch: roos
      • Afrikaans: roos
      • Jersey Dutch: rôz
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: rusi
      • → Papiamentu: deros, deroos
    • Limburgish: roeas
• Old High German: rōsa
  • Middle High German: rôse
    • Alemannic German: Roos, Roose
    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: roas

      Mòcheno: roas

    • Central Franconian: Rus
    • German: Rose (see there for further descendants)
    • Vilamovian: ruuz
    • Yiddish: רויז (royz)