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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kefrō

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

Etymology

Unknown; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“to eat, chew”)[2], perhaps related to *kafl (“jaw”).

Noun

*kefrō m[2]

  1. beetle

Inflection
Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *kefrō
Genitive *kefrini, *kefran
Singular Plural
Nominative *kefrō *kefran
Accusative *kefran *kefran
Genitive *kefrini, *kefran *kefranō
Dative *kefrini, *kefran *kefrum
Instrumental *kefrini, *kefran *kefrum

Alternative reconstructions

Descendants
  • Old English: ċeafor
    • Middle English: chafur, chavere
  • Old Saxon: kevera
    • Middle Low German: kever, sever
      • German Low German: Käver, Sever, Sevver, Sebber
  • Old Dutch: *keviro
  • Old High German: cheviro, chevar

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Käfer”, 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 346: “*kebra-/ōn”
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kebra(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 283: “A form *kafra- or *kabra- must nevertheless be reconstructed on the basis of OE ceafor.”
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