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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰébʰrus

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Etymology

Possibly from *bʰerH- (“brown”) via a reduplicated form *bʰebʰr(H)-, although Ringe (2006:106) doubts that such a word existed.

Noun

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*bʰébʰrus m

  1. beaver

Inflection
Athematic, proterokinetic
singular
nominative *bʰébʰrus
genitive *bʰebʰréws
singular dual plural
nominative *bʰébʰrus *bʰébʰruh₁(e) *bʰébʰrewes
vocative *bʰébʰru *bʰébʰruh₁(e) *bʰébʰrewes
accusative *bʰébʰrum *bʰébʰruh₁(e) *bʰébʰrums
genitive *bʰebʰréws *? *bʰebʰréwoHom
ablative *bʰebʰréws *? *bʰebʰrúmos
dative *bʰebʰréwey *? *bʰebʰrúmos
locative *bʰebʰréw, *bʰebʰréwi *? *bʰebʰrúsu
instrumental *bʰebʰrúh₁ *? *bʰebʰrúmis

Descendants
  • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *bébrus (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Celtic: *bebrus[1]
    • Proto-Brythonic:
    • Old Irish: Bibar
    • →? Late Latin: beber (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Germanic: *bebruz (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *bʰábʰruš[2] (see there for further descendants)
  • Proto-Italic: *febros

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009) “bebru-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 59
  2. Rastorgujeva, V. S., Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 153
  • Mallory, J. P. with Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
  • Donald A. Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (2006), Linguistic history of English, vol. 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press →ISBN
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