Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bikārī

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

Borrowed from Late Latin bīcārium (“drinking glass”).

Noun edit

*bikārī m

wine vat, jug

Inflection edit

Masculine ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*bikārī
Genitive	*bikārijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*bikārī	bikārijō, bikārijōs
Accusative	*bikārī	*bikārijā
Genitive	*bikārijas	*bikārijō
Dative	*bikārijē	*bikārijum
Instrumental	*bikāriju	*bikārijum

Alternative reconstructions edit

*bekārī

Descendants edit

Old English: *biker
- Middle English: biker, byker, bekyr (or borrowed from Old Norse)
  - English: beaker
  - Scots: bicker
Old Frisian: *biker, *beker
- Saterland Frisian: Bieker
- North Frisian: baager
- West Frisian: beker
Old Saxon: bikeri, *bekari
- Middle Low German: bēker
  - → Old Norse: bikarr
    - Icelandic: bikar
    - Faroese: bikar
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: bikar, bekar; (dialectal) bekare
    - Old Swedish: bikare
      - Swedish: bägare
      - → Finnish: pikari
      - → Ingrian: pikkaari
      - → Karelian: pikari
      - → Votic: pikari
    - Danish: bæger
      - Norwegian Bokmål: beger
        → Norwegian Nynorsk: beger
      - → North Frisian: baager
    - → Middle English: biker, beker (partially from Middle Dutch)
      - English: beaker
      - Scots: bikker, bicker
Old Dutch: *becari
- Middle Dutch: bēker
  - Dutch: beker
    - Afrikaans: beker
    - Negerhollands: beeker
    - → Indonesian: beker
    - → Papiamentu: beker
    - → Sranan Tongo: beiker
      - → Caribbean Javanese: bèker
  - → Middle English: beker, biker (partially from Old Norse)
    - English: beaker
    - Scots: bikker, bicker
Old High German: behhari, pehhari, behhar
- Middle High German: becher, bechāre, pechāre
  - German: Becher
    - → French: bécher
    - → Italian: becher
  - Luxembourgish: Becher
  - Mòcheno: bikera
  - → Lower Sorbian: bjachaŕ
  - → Upper Sorbian: bjechaŕ
- → Bulgarian: пахар (pahar)
- → Hungarian: pohár
  - → Polish: puchar
  - → Romanian: pahar
  - → Slovak: pohár
    - → Czech: pohár
- → Macedonian: пехар (pehar)
- → Russian: пахирь (paxirʹ)
- → Serbo-Croatian: pehar
  - → Albanian: pehar