Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/amprō
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *ampr (“sour”) + *-ō. Compare *sūrā (“sorrel”), from *sūr (“sour”). Compare also the parallel formations Sanskrit अम्ल (amlá, “sour, bitter; wood sorrel”) and Latvian amuols (“yellow sorrel”), apparently from the same root with a slightly different suffix.
Noun
edit*amprō m
Inflection
editMasculine an-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *amprō | |
Genitive | *amprini, *ampran | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *amprō | *ampran |
Accusative | *ampran | *ampran |
Genitive | *amprini, *ampran | *ampranō |
Dative | *amprini, *ampran | *amprum |
Instrumental | *amprini, *ampran | *amprum |
Alternative reconstructions
edit- *amprā
Descendants
edit- Old English: ampre f, ompre ( < Proto-West Germanic *amprā)
- Old Saxon: *ampro
- ⇒ Middle Low German: sûramper m
- Old High German: ampfaro m; amphara f ( < Proto-West Germanic *amprā)
Further reading
edit- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*ampra/on-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 25
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Ampfer”, 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 26