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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mōrubaʀi

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 Latin mōrus (“mulberry, blackberry”) +‎ *baʀi (“berry”).[1]

Noun

*mōrubaʀi n

  1. mulberry

Inflection
Neuter ja-stem
Singular
Nominative *mōrubaʀi
Genitive *mōrubaʀjas
Singular Plural
Nominative *mōrubaʀi *mōrubaʀju
Accusative *mōrubaʀi *mōrubaʀju
Genitive *mōrubaʀjas *mōrubaʀjō
Dative *mōrubaʀjē *mōrubaʀjum
Instrumental *mōrubaʀju *mōrubaʀjum

Descendants
  • Old English: mōrberġe, mōrberie
    • Middle English: mulbery, molbery, mulberie, mulbere
  • Old Saxon: mulberi
    • Middle Low German: mûlbêre, môlbêre
      • German Low German: Muulbeer
      • Plautdietsch: Mulbäa
      • → Danish: morbær
        • → Icelandic: mórber
        • → Faroese: morber
      • → Norwegian: morbær
      • → Swedish: mullbär
  • Old Dutch: *mōrberi
    • Middle Dutch: moerbeye, moerbesie
      • Dutch: moerbei, moerbezie
        • Afrikaans: moerbei
        • → Indonesian: murbei
        • → Malay: murbei
        • → West Frisian: moerbei
  • Old High German: mūrberi, mōrberi, mōrber

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Maulbeere”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 468
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