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      Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fast
Proto-West Germanic
    
    
Etymology
    
From Proto-Germanic *fastuz (“secure, firm, fixed”).
Inflection
    
| a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | ||
| Nominative | *fast | ||
| Genitive | *fastas | ||
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | 
| Nominative | *fast | *fastu | *fast | 
| Accusative | *fastanā | *fastā | *fast | 
| Genitive | *fastas | *fasteʀā | *fastas | 
| Dative | *fastumē | *fasteʀē | *fastumē | 
| Instrumental | *fastu | *fasteʀu | *fastu | 
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter | 
| Nominative | *fastē | *fastō | *fastu | 
| Accusative | *fastā | *fastā | *fastu | 
| Genitive | *fasteʀō | *fasteʀō | *fasteʀō | 
| Dative | *fastēm, *fastum | *fastēm, *fastum | *fastēm, *fastum | 
| Instrumental | *fastēm, *fastum | *fastēm, *fastum | *fastēm, *fastum | 
Descendants
    
References
    
- Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 131: “PWGmc *fast”
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