Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gurą

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 Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm; hot”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɣu.rɑ̃/

Noun

*gurą n

half-digested stomach contents
manure; dung; feces
filth; muck

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *gurą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*gurą	*gurō
vocative	*gurą	*gurō
accusative	*gurą	*gurō
genitive	guras, guris	*gurǫ̂
dative	*gurai	*guramaz
instrumental	*gurō	*guramiz

Related terms

*garnō (“intestines”) (possibly)
*gurwijō (“mud, marshes”)
*gurwijaz (adjective)

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *gor
- Old English: gor; (gyr, gyre, gyra, gyru)
  - Middle English: gor, gorre, gore; (güre, girre, gire)
    - Scots: goor, gure
    - English: gore
- (Old Frisian: gēre, iēre, jēre)
  - (Saterland Frisian: Jirre)
  - (West Frisian: jarre)
- Old Saxon: *gor; (*goru)
  - Middle Low German: gore; gore, gorre
- Old Dutch: gor (in placenames); (*gori (adjective))
  - Middle Dutch: ghoor, goor; (goor, gore; gier, ghier (adjective))
    - (Dutch: goor); (gier)
      - Afrikaans: goor
- Old High German: gor; (gurigabala)
  - Middle High German: gor
    - German: Gur, Guhr (archaic, dialectal)
Old Norse: gor; (gjǫr)
- Icelandic: gor; gjör
- Faroese: gor
- Norwegian: gor
- Swedish: gorr, går
  - Gothenburghian gör
- Old Danish: gor
→? Proto-Finnic: *kura (“dirt, mud”)
- Estonian: kura
- Finnish: kura

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