Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fimf

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 *fimf.

Numeral

Proto-West Germanic cardinal numbers

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Cardinal : *fimf

*fimf

1. five

Descendants

• Old English: fīf
  • Middle English: five, fife, fif, fyve, vif, vive
    • English: five
    • Scots: five, fif, fife, fyve
    • Yola: veeve
• Old Frisian: fīf
  • North Frisian:

    Most dialects: fiiw

    Helgoland: fiuw

    Sylt: fif

  • Saterland Frisian: fieuw
  • West Frisian: fiif
• Old Saxon: fīf, fīvi
  • Middle Low German: vîf
    • German Low German: fiev
    • Plautdietsch: fief
• Old Dutch: finf, vīf
  • Middle Dutch: vijf
    • Dutch: vijf
      • Afrikaans: vyf
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: faifu, fefu
      • Javindo: fijf
      • Jersey Dutch: vāif
      • Negerhollands: fyf, fev, veif
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: faif
      • Sranan Tongo: feifi
        • Aukan: feifi
      • → Trió: peihpë
    • Limburgish: vief
• Old High German: fimf
  • Middle High German: vinf, vünf
    • Alemannic German: foif, föif, füüf, fünf

      Alsatian: fénef, fänef, feenef

      Swabian: finf

    • Bavarian: finf

      Cimbrian: vünve, bümbe

      Mòcheno: vinf

    • Central Franconian: fönnef, fennef, fief

      Hunsrik: finnef

    • East Central German: fönff
    • German: fünf
    • Luxembourgish: fënnef
    • Pennsylvania German: fimf
    • Vilamovian: fynf
    • Yiddish: פֿינף (finf)