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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sturjô

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

Possibly from a non-IE substrate doublet *asetr-, *str-.[1] Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥Hyón-.[2] Possible cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *eśetras (“sturgeon”), Late Latin hapax fariō (= ſariō (“salmon trout”)).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈstur.jɔː/

Noun

*sturjô m

  1. sturgeon

Inflection
Declension of *sturjô (an-stem)
Case Singular Plural
Nominative *sturjô *sturjaniz
Vocative *sturjô *sturjaniz
Accusative *sturjanų *sturjanunz
Genitive *sturiniz *sturjanǫ̂
Dative *sturini *sturjammaz
Instrumental *sturinē *sturjammiz


Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic: *sturjō
    • Old English: styria, styriġa, styrġa, styra, stiriġa, stiria
      • Middle English: store, stor
    • Old Frisian: *sturia, *steria, *storia
    • Old Saxon: sturio
    • Old Dutch: *sturio
    • Old High German: sturio, sturo
    • → Medieval Latin: sturio, sturgio (943, Italy) (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Norse: styrja

Further reading
  • Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz. 1991. "Indo-European *sr̥C in Germanic". Historische Sprachforschung 104:1, pp. 106–107.

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*sturja/ōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488
  2. Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 147
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