Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/offr

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Late Latin offrum (“a sacrifice”), or a back-formation from *offrōn (“to offer up, sacrifice”), both from Latin offerō.

Noun

*offr n

1. sacrifice, offering

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*offr
Genitive	*offras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*offr	*offru
Accusative	*offr	*offru
Genitive	*offras	*offrō
Dative	*offrē	*offrum
Instrumental	*offru	*offrum

Alternative reconstructions

• *offer

Descendants

• Old Frisian: offer
• Old Saxon: offar
  • Middle Low German: opper, offer
    • → Old Frisian: opper
    • → Old Norse: offr
      • Faroese: offur
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: offer
      • Norwegian Bokmål: offer
      • Swedish: offer
      • Danish: offer
• Old Dutch: *offar
  • Middle Dutch: offer
    • Dutch: offer
• Old High German: opfar, offar, ophar, opher
  • Middle High German: opfer, opher, offer
    • German: Opfer
    • Hunsrik: Opfer

Further reading

• Holthausen, Ferdinand (1954) “offar”, in Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, page 56
• Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Opfer”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 517