Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/airi

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyeri.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑi̯.ri/

Adverb

*airi (comparative *airiz, superlative *airist)^[1]

early

Derived terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *airi
- Old English: ǣr
  - Middle English: er
    - English: ere
    - Scots: air
    - Yola: ear
- Old Frisian: ēr
  - Saterland Frisian: eer, ädder
  - West Frisian: ier
    - ⇒ West Frisian: eardat, ear't
- Old Saxon: ēr
  - Middle Low German: êr
    - German Low German: ehr
      - ⇒ German Low German: ehrdat
      - ⇒ German Low German: ehrder
      - ⇒ German Low German: ehrtieds
- Old Dutch: ēr
  - Middle Dutch: êer
    - Dutch: eer
      - Afrikaans: eer
    - Limburgish: ieër
- Old High German: ēr
  - Middle High German: ēr, ē (loss of -r as in hie, dā)
    - German: eher, ehe, eh
Old Norse: ár, áðr
- Icelandic: ár, áður (áður may be from *airiz)
- Faroese: áður
- Norwegian Nynorsk: år
- Old Swedish: *ar
- ⇒ Old Norse: árla
  - Icelandic: árla
  - Faroese: árla
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: årle; (dialectal) årla
  - Old Swedish: aarla, arla^[2]
    - Swedish: arla
  - Danish: årle
    - Norwegian Bokmål: årle
Gothic: 𐌰𐌹𐍂 (air)

References

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*airi”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 12
^ arla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

[1] Guus Kroonen (2013) “*airi”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 12

[2] rla in Svenska Akademiens ordbok (SAOB)

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