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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/amaʀā

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

Alternative forms
  • *amaʀō m

Etymology

Kroonen links *amslā (“blackbird”), which is either from Proto-Indo-European *h₂em(-)s- (“blackbird”) or from a Central European substrate language; if the former, the stem *amaʀ- could reflect the unsuffixed original *h₂ém-ōs ~ *h₂m-és-.

Noun

*amaʀā f

  1. a kind of passerine bird:
    1. blackbird
    2. bunting
    3. yellowhammer

Inflection
ōn-stem
Singular
Nominative *amaʀā
Genitive *amaʀōn
Singular Plural
Nominative *amaʀā *amaʀōn
Accusative *amaʀōn *amaʀōn
Genitive *amaʀōn *amaʀōnō
Dative *amaʀōn *amaʀōm, *amaʀum
Instrumental *amaʀōn *amaʀōm, *amaʀum

Descendants
  • Old English: amore
    • Middle English: *amere, *amre, *ambre
  • Old Saxon: amaro
  • Old High German: amara, amaro, amero

Further reading
  • Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*amazan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24
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