Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/daru

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

From Proto-Germanic *darō.

Noun

*daru f[1]

injury, harm

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*daru
Genitive	*darā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*daru	*darō
Accusative	*darā	*darā
Genitive	*darā	*darō
Dative	*darē	darōm, darum
Instrumental	*daru	darōm, darum

Derived terms

*darjan
*darōn

Descendants

Old English: daru, dæru
>? Old Dutch: *dara
- Middle Dutch: dāre (possibly derived from Middle Dutch dāren < Proto-West Germanic *darōn)
Old High German: tara

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196: “PWGmc *daru”

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[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196: “PWGmc *daru”