Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ahaʀ

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

Alternative forms

*ahiʀ

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ahaz. The final -z, which should have been lost in Proto-West Germanic, was reintroduced on the basis of the inflected forms.

Noun

*ahaʀ n^[1]

ear (of grain)

Inflection

z-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*ahaʀ
Genitive	*ahiʀi
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*ahaʀ	*ahiʀu
Accusative	*ahaʀ	*ahiʀu
Genitive	*ahiʀi	*ahiʀō
Dative	*ahiʀi	*ahiʀum
Instrumental	*ahiʀi	*ahiʀum

Descendants

Old English: ēar, æhher — Northumbrian
- Middle English: eere, ear, ere, er, ȝer, eyre
  - English: ear
  - Scots: aicher, icker, aiker (< æhher)
Old Frisian: *ēr
- Saterland Frisian: Iere
- West Frisian: ier
Old Saxon: ahar, ahir, ehir
- Middle Low German: ār
  - Low German: Ahr
  - Plautdietsch: Oa
Old Dutch: *ār
- Middle Dutch: aer
  - Dutch: aar
    - Afrikaans: aar
Old High German: ahir, ahar, ehir
- Middle High German: eher, äher
  - Alemannic German: Äli
  - Central Franconian: Ohr, Öhr, Ähr, Ähjer, Iehr
    - Luxembourgish: Éi
  - German: Ähre
  - Vilamovian: yjer

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 54: “PWGmc *ahaz- ~ *ahiz-”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 54: “PWGmc *ahaz- ~ *ahiz-”

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