Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gaurā

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

Unknown;[1] possibly:

from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“less, short”), cognate with Old Irish gerr (“short”), Sanskrit ह्रस्व (hrasva, “short”);[2]
or related to *gauraz (“sad, sorrowful”), cognate with Old Church Slavonic журба (žurba, “grief”), Sanskrit घोर (ghora, “terrible”).

Noun

*gaurā f

young child

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*gaurā
Genitive	*gaurōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*gaurā	*gaurōn
Accusative	*gaurōn	*gaurōn
Genitive	*gaurōn	*gaurōnō
Dative	*gaurōn	gaurōm, gaurum
Instrumental	*gaurōn	gaurōm, gaurum

Related terms

*gurilā (“young person”)
- Old English: *gyrele, *gyrle
*gurrijā (“whore”)
- Old Saxon: *gurria
  - Middle Low German: gorre, gurre f
    - → Dutch: gorre, gurre f
    - → Norwegian: gorre (dialectal)
    - → Swedish: gårre, gurre (dialectal)

Descendants

Old Frisian: *gōre
- North Frisian: gör
Old Saxon: *gōra
- Middle Low German: gȫre, gȫr f
  - Low German: Gör n, Göre f
  - German Low German: Göör n
  - → German: Gör n, Göre f[1] [16th century]
  - → Switzerland German: Gorsch

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Gör”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 272
Torp, Alf (1919) “Gorre”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 176

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[EWddS-1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Gör”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 272

[2] Torp, Alf (1919) “Gorre”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 176