Language | Reflex(es) | Gloss | Grammar | Sources |
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English |
English | Meistersinger | master of 14th-16th century German guild cultivating traditions of medieval Minnesingers | prop.n | W7 LRC |
English | minnesinger | German lyric poet/musician of 12th-14th centuries | n | AHD W7 LRC |
English | sing, sang, sung | to produce music via voice | vb.str | AHD W7 LRC |
English | singspiel | comic/dramatic German musical/dialogue work | n | AHD W7 LRC |
English | song | act/art of singing | n | AHD W7 LRC |
Old English | sang, song | song, poetry | n.masc | ASD LRC |
Old English | singan, sang, sungon, sungen | to sing, recite, compose | vb.str.III | LRC |
Middle English | singen | to sing | vb | W7 LRC |
Middle English | song | song | n | W7 LRC |
West Germanic |
Middle High German | meistersinger | Meistersinger, lit. master-singer | n.masc | W7 LRC |
German | Meistersinger | Meistersinger | n.masc | W7 LRC |
Middle High German | minnesinger | minnesinger, courtly love singer | n.masc | W7 LRC |
German | Minnesinger | minnesinger | n.masc | W7 LRC |
Old High German | sang | song | n | ASD LRC |
Old High German | singan | to sing, recite | vb | W7 LRC |
Middle High German | singer | singer | n.masc | W7 LRC |
German | singen | to sing | vb | W7 LRC |
German | singspiel | singspiel | n.neut | W7 LRC |
Old Frisian | singa | to sing | vb | ASD LRC |
Old Frisian | song | song | n | ASD LRC |
Dutch | zingen | to sing | vb | LRC |
Old Saxon | sang | song | n | ASD LRC |
Old Saxon | singan | to sing | vb | LRC |
Celtic |
Welsh | de(h)ongli | to explain | vb | LRC |
North Germanic |
Old Norse | syngja, syngva | to sing | vb | LRC |
Icelandic | syngva | to sing, ring, whistle | vb | ASD LRC |
Icelandic | söngr | song | n | ASD LRC |
Danish | synge | to sing | vb | LRC |
Swedish | sjunga | to sing | vb | LRC |
East Germanic |
Gothic | saggws | song | n | ASD LRC |
Gothic | siggwan | to sing | vb.str.III | GED LRC |
Crimean Gothic | singhen | to sing | vb | CGo LRC |
Hellenic |
Hesychius' Greek Lexicon | ζίγγος | humming of bees | n | LRC |
Homeric Greek | ὀμφή | voice of a god/goddess | n.fem | LRC |
Indo-Iranian |
Prakrit | saṃghai | to say, teach | vb | LRC |