Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plōg

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 *plōgaz.

Noun

*plōg m

1. plough, plow

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*plōg
Genitive	*plōgas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*plōg	*plōgō, *plōgōs
Accusative	*plōg	*plōgā
Genitive	*plōgas	*plōgō
Dative	*plōgē	*plōgum
Instrumental	*plōgu	*plōgum

Descendants

• Old English: plōg, plōh
  • Middle English: plough, ploug, plouh, plogh, plog, ploh, ploch, plugh, pleugh, plue, pleu (northern)
    • English: plough, plow (US) (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: pleuch, plou
    • Yola: pleough, plowe, plou
• Old Frisian: plōch
  • North Frisian: plog
  • Saterland Frisian: Plouch
  • West Frisian: ploech
• Old Saxon: *plōg
  • Middle Low German: plôg
    • Low German: Ploog
    • Plautdietsch: Pluach, Plüach
• Old Dutch: *pluog
  • Middle Dutch: ploech
    • Dutch: ploeg
      • Afrikaans: ploeg
    • Limburgish: plógk
• Old High German: phluog, pfluog
  • Middle High German: pfluoc
    • Central Franconian: Plooch, Pluuch (southern Moselle Franconian)

      Hunsrik: Plugh

      Luxembourgish: Plou

    • East Central German:

      Vilamovian: fłüg

    • East Franconian:
    • German: Pflug
    • Rhine Franconian: Plug
• → Medieval Latin: plōvum, ploum
• → Proto-Slavic: *plùgъ (see there for further descendants)
• → Lithuanian: plū̃gas