Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/biskop

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 Late Latin biscopus, ebiscopus, episcopus.

Noun

*biskop m

1. (Christianity) bishop

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*biskop
Genitive	*biskopas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*biskop	*biskopō, *biskopōs
Accusative	*biskop	*biskopā
Genitive	*biskopas	*biskopō
Dative	*biskopē	*biskopum
Instrumental	*biskopu	*biskopum

Descendants

• Old English: bisċop, bisċeop
  • Middle English: bischop, bisschop, bisshop, byschop, bishup, busshop, bushop, busschop, bysshop, bissop, biscop, bisscopp
    • English: bishop (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: bishop
  • → Old Norse: biskup
    • Icelandic: biskup
    • Faroese: biskupur
    • Norwegian Bokmål: biskop, Norwegian Bokmål: bisp
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: biskop, Norwegian Nynorsk: bisp
    • Old Swedish: biskoper, biskuper
      • Swedish: biskop
      • → Finnish: piispa
    • Danish: biskop
• Old Frisian: biskop
  • Saterland Frisian: Biskop
  • West Frisian: biskop
• Old Saxon: biskop
  • Middle Low German: bischop, bischop, biscop
    • German Low German: Bischopp
• Old Dutch: biskop
  • Middle Dutch: bischop
    • Dutch: bisschop
      • Afrikaans: biskop
      • →? Mahican: bishop
      • → Malay: biskop
        • Indonesian: biskop
      • → Sranan Tongo: biskop
• Old High German: biscof, biskof
  • Middle High German: bischof
    • Cimbrian: bissof
    • German: Bischof
    • Vilamovian: bisküp
    • Yiddish: בישאָף (bishof)