Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/offr
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Late Latin offrum (“a sacrifice”), or a back-formation from *offrōn (“to offer up, sacrifice”), both from Latin offerō.
Noun edit
*offr n
Inflection edit
Neuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *offr | |
Genitive | *offras | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *offr | *offru |
Accusative | *offr | *offru |
Genitive | *offras | *offrō |
Dative | *offrē | *offrum |
Instrumental | *offru | *offrum |
Alternative reconstructions edit
- *offer
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Holthausen, Ferdinand (1954) “offar”, in Altsächsisches Wörterbuch[1] (in German), Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, page 56
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Opfer”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 517