Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bermō
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editUncertain; possibly from Proto-Germanic *bermô, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰér-mō ~ *bʰr̥-mnés[1],[2] from *bʰer- (“to boil”) (compare with Latin fermentum (“fermentation; yeast”)) or *bʰrewh₁- (“to boil; to brew”), or perhaps from *gʷʰér-mō ~ *gʷʰr̥-mnés,[3] from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).
Noun
edit*bermō m
Declension
editMasculine an-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *bermō | |
Genitive | *birmini, *berman | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *bermō | *berman |
Accusative | *berman | *berman |
Genitive | *birmini, *berman | *bermanō |
Dative | *birmini, *berman | *bermum |
Instrumental | *birmini, *berman | *bermum |
Descendants
edit- Old English: beorma, beorm, bearm
- Old Frisian: berma
- Old Saxon: *bermo, *berma
- Old Dutch: *bermo; *berma
References
edit- ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 255: “*bher-m-n-”
- ^ Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 60
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*krudda/ōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 306
Categories:
- Proto-West Germanic terms with unknown etymologies
- Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-West Germanic lemmas
- Proto-West Germanic nouns
- Proto-West Germanic masculine nouns
- gmw-pro:Yeasts
- Proto-West Germanic masculine an-stem nouns