Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/elmaz

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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

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From Proto-Indo-European *h₁él(e)m (mountain elm).

Kroonen (2011) regards the variant *ulmaz as evidence of an ablauting paradigm, most likely *elm ~ *ulmaz from an amphikinetic m-stem *h₁él-m̥ ~ *h₁l̥-m-ós (compare *armaz and *halmaz for potentially the same type).[2] However, this lemma is not included in his 2013 dictionary.[3]

Noun

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*elmaz m[1]

  1. elm tree
  2. wood from an elm tree

Inflection

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masculine a-stemDeclension of *elmaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *elmaz *elmōz, *elmōs
vocative *elm *elmōz, *elmōs
accusative *elmą *elmanz
genitive *elmas, *ilmis *elmǫ̂
dative *elmai *elmamaz
instrumental *elmō *elmamiz

Descendants

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References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*elmaz ~ *almaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 83
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 Kroonen, Guus (2011) “*elm, *ulmaz”, in The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 155–157:*(h₁)él-m, *h₁l-m-ós
  3. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[2], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN