Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/furi

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 Pre-Germanic *pr̥h₂-i, from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɸu.ri/

Preposition

*furi

(+accusative, with allative meaning) for, before

Adverb

*furi (comparative *furiz, superlative *furist)

before, forward

Related terms

*furai

Descendants

In most of the daughter languages *furi and *furai had begun to merge in meaning and to varying degrees in form.

Proto-West Germanic: *furi
- Old English: for, fore (in meaning, the form from *forē)
  - Middle English: for
    - English: for
    - Scots: for
    - Yola: vor, var
- Old Frisian: fori, for
  - Saterland Frisian: foar, far
  - West Frisian: foar
- Old Saxon: furi
  - Middle Low German:
    - Low German: för
- Old Dutch: furi, fure
  - Middle Dutch: vuere, vuer
    - Dutch: veur (dialectal)
      - Afrikaans: vir
- Old High German: furi
  - Middle High German: vür
    - Bavarian:
      Cimbrian: büar
      Mòcheno: ver
    - Central Franconian: für, vür (fully merged)
    - German: für
    - Luxembourgish: fir
    - Upper Saxon German: for
    - Yiddish: פֿאַר (far)
Old Norse: fyrir, fyr (probably with analogical -ir based on eptir, yfir, undir)
- Icelandic: fyrir
- Faroese: fyri
- Norwegian Nynorsk: føre, for, fyre (dated)
- Old Swedish: fyri(r), for
  - Swedish: före, för
- Danish: for
Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂 (faur)