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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/taru

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

Presumably from Proto-Germanic *tarwō, from Proto-Indo-European *dér(H)-uh₂ ~ *dr̥(H)-wéh₂, from Proto-Indo-European *der(H)- (“to tear, crack”).[1][2] Cognate with Lithuanian dirvà (“field”), Russian дере́вня (derévnja, “village, thorp”), Ancient Greek δάρατος (dáratos, “bread”), Sanskrit दूर्वा (dū́rvā, “panic grass, millet”), Welsh drewg (“darnel”).

Noun

*taru f

  1. wheat
    Synonym: *hwaitī
  2. tare

Inflection
wō-stem
Singular
Nominative *taru
Genitive *tarwā
Singular Plural
Nominative *taru *tarwō
Accusative *tarwā *tarwā
Genitive *tarwā *tarwō
Dative *tarwē *tarwōm, *tarum
Instrumental *taru *tarwōm, *tarum

Descendants
  • Old English: *taru
    • Middle English: tare (or possibly borrowed from Middle Dutch or Low German[3])
  • Old Saxon: *tarwa
    • Middle Low German: tarwe, terwe
      • German Low German:
        Bentheimisch, Westmünsterländisch: Tarwe
  • Old Dutch: *tarwa

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*terwōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 514
  2. Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “tarwe”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎ (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: “pgm. *tarwō-”
  3. “tā̆r(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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