Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/furi
Proto-GermanicEdit
EtymologyEdit
From Pre-Germanic *pr̥h₂-i, from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.
PronunciationEdit
PrepositionEdit
*furi
AdverbEdit
*furi
- before, forward
Related termsEdit
DescendantsEdit
In most of the daughter languages *furi and *furai had begun to merge in meaning and to varying degrees in form.
- West Germanic: *furi
- Old Norse: fyrir (probably with analogical -ir based on eptir, yfir, undir)
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂 (faur)
Further readingEdit
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN