Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sparrô

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

From Pre-Germanic *sporHon, from Proto-Indo-European *sperH- (“spear; a kind of tree”); see the related *speru (“spear”) for more.[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈspɑr.rɔːː/

Noun

*sparrô m[1]

  1. beam, bar
  2. spar, rafter

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *sparrō
    • Old Frisian: *sperra
    • Old Saxon: sparro
    • Old Dutch: *sparro
    • Old High German: sparro
    • → Old French: espar f (alternatively borrowed from Gothic)
      • Middle French: espar, épar f
        • French: épar m
  • Old Norse: sparri

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*spar(r)an-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 466
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