Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kirsijā

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 Late Latin ceresia.

Noun

*kirsijā f

1. cherry

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kirsijā
Genitive	*kirsijōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kirsijā	*kirsijōn
Accusative	*kirsijōn	*kirsijōn
Genitive	*kirsijōn	*kirsijōnō
Dative	*kirsijōn	*kirsijōm, *kirsijum
Instrumental	*kirsijōn	*kirsijōm, *kirsijum

Descendants

• Old English: ċirse, ċyrse, ċiris, ċyrs
  • Middle English: cheri, chiri, chirie, chyry, chere, cherie, chery (through confluence with Anglo-French form)
    • English: cherry (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: chirry, chery, cherrie, cherry
    • → Middle Irish: silín, sirín
      • Irish: silín
      • Manx: shillish
      • Scottish Gaelic: sirist
• Old Frisian: *tzerse
  • Saterland Frisian: Säärse
• Old Saxon: *kirsa
  • Middle Low German: kerse
    • Dutch Low Saxon: kaars, kaarze
    • German Low German: Kars

      Plautdietsch: Kjoasch

    • → Finnish: kirsikka
    • → Latvian: ķirsis
    • ⇒ Middle Low German: kersebere
      • → Old Norse: *kirsuber
        • Faroese: kirsuber
        • Icelandic: kirsuber
        • Norwegian Bokmål: kirsebær
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: kirsebær
        • Swedish: körsbär
        • Danish: kirsebær
• Old Dutch: *kirsa
  • Middle Dutch: kerse
    • Dutch: kers
      • ⇒ Afrikaans: kersie (from the diminutive form)
      • Negerhollands: kirsch
      • → Caribbean Hindustani: kers
      • → Malay: kersen (from the plural form)
        • Indonesian: kers, kersen
      • → Sranan Tongo: kersi
        • → Caribbean Hindustani: kersi
        • → Caribbean Javanese: kèrsi
      • → West Frisian: kers
    • Limburgish: kèrs, kaes, kees, kiesj
• Old High German: kirsa, chirsa, kersa, kirs
  • Middle High German: kirse
    • Alemannic German: Chirsi, Chirschi
    • Bavarian: Kiaschn

      Cimbrian: khèrsch, khèersa

    • Kölsch: Körsche
    • German: Kirsche, Kersche
      • → Estonian: kirss
    • Luxembourgish: Kiischt, Kiisch
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Hessian: Kesch

      Pennsylvania German: Kasch

    • Vilamovian: kjyś
    • Yiddish: קאַרש (karsh)
• →? Proto-Slavic: *čèršьňa (see there for further descendants)