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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/amprō
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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
Etymology
From *ampr (“sour”) + *-ō. Compare *sūrā (“sorrel”), from *sūr (“sour”). Compare also the parallel formations Sanskrit अम्ल (amlá, “sour, bitter; wood sorrel”) and Latvian amuols (“yellow sorrel”), apparently from the same root with a slightly different suffix.
Inflection
| Masculine an-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *amprō | |
| Genitive | *amprini, *ampran | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *amprō | *ampran |
| Accusative | *ampran | *ampran |
| Genitive | *amprini, *ampran | *ampranō |
| Dative | *amprini, *ampran | *amprum |
| Instrumental | *amprini, *ampran | *amprum |
Alternative reconstructions
- *amprā
Descendants
Further reading
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*ampra/on-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 25
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Ampfer”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 26
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