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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ahurn

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

A European word, possibly of non-IE substrate origin. Cognate with Latin acer.[1]

Noun

*ahurn m[1]

  1. maple

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *ahurn
Genitive *ahurnas
Singular Plural
Nominative *ahurn *ahurnō, *ahurnōs
Accusative *ahurn *ahurnā
Genitive *ahurnas *ahurnō
Dative *ahurnē *ahurnum
Instrumental *ahurnu *ahurnum

Descendants
  • Old Saxon: ahorn
  • Old High German: ahorn, ahurn, acharn
    • Middle High German: ahorn
    • → Proto-Slavic: *àvorъ (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ahurna-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 7
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