Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/beust

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic edit

Etymology edit

Uncertain; presumably related *beustr, *breustr (whence Old High German biastr (beestings)), suggested to be dissimilated from Proto-Germanic *breustaz[1] (whence Icelandic ábrystir pl (dish made from beestings)), and possibly either derived from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrews- (to swell), or further connected to Proto-Iranian *frušáh (beestings)[2], both perhaps borrowed from a substrate language[3].

Noun edit

*beust m[2]

  1. beestings

Inflection edit

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *beust
Genitive *beustas
Singular Plural
Nominative *beust *beustō, *beustōs
Accusative *beust *beustā
Genitive *beustas *beustō
Dative *beustē *beustum
Instrumental *beustu *beustum

Related terms edit

Derived terms edit

Descendants edit

References edit

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*beusta-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 62
  2. 2.0 2.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Biest¹”, 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 84: “wg. *beusta-”
  3. ^ Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009), “biest”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press