Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/brahsmô

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

Alternative reconstructions

*brahsmǭ (femininized)^[1]

Noun

*brahsmô m or f

bream

Inflection

According to Kroonen (2011), it is an ablauting mn-stem.^[2]

Declension of *brahsmô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*brahsmô	*brahsmaniz
vocative	*brahsmô	*brahsmaniz
accusative	*brahsmanų	*bruhsnunz
genitive	*bruhsnaz	*bruhsnǫ̂
dative	*bruhsmini	*bruhsmummaz
instrumental	*bruhsnē	*bruhsmummiz

Descendants

Frankish: *brahsima
- Old Dutch: *brasma
  - Dutch: brasem
- → Old French: braisme
  - French: brème
  - → English: bream
Old High German: brahsmo, brahsma
- Middle High German: brahsem
  - German: Brachse, Brachsen
(Old Norse: brosma) (< *bruhsm-)
- (Icelandic: brosma)
- (Faroese: brosma)
- (Norwegian: brosme)
- (Danish: brosme)

References

^ Vladimir Orel (2003) A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53
^ Kroonen, Guus (2011) “The *a ~ *u type”, in The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pages 210-211

[1] Vladimir Orel (2003) A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 53

[2] Kroonen, Guus (2011) “The *a ~ *u type”, in The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam: Rodopi, pages 210-211

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