Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bermō
Proto-West GermanicEdit
EtymologyEdit
Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Germanic *bermô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰér-mō ~ *bʰr̥-mnés[1][2], from *bʰer- (“to boil”) (compare with Latin fermentum (“fermentation; yeast”)), or perhaps from *gʷʰér-mō ~ *gʷʰr̥-mnés[3], from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).
NounEdit
*bermō m
DeclensionEdit
Masculine an-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *bermō | |
Genitive | *bermini | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *bermō | *berman |
Accusative | *berman | *berman |
Genitive | *bermini | *bermanō |
Dative | *bermini | *bermum |
Instrumental | *bermini | *bermum |
DescendantsEdit
- Old English: beorma, beorm, bearm
- Old Frisian: berma
- Old Saxon: *bermo, *berma
- Old Dutch: *bermo; *berma
ReferencesEdit
- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, page 255
- ^ Boutkan, Dirk; Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 60
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*krudda/ōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 306