Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aimuzjǭ

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From *aimaz +‎ *uzjǭ.

Noun

*aimuzjǭ f[1]

ember, hot ash
pyre

Inflection

ōn-stemDeclension of *aimuzjǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*aimuzjǭ	*aimuzjōniz
vocative	*aimuzjǭ	*aimuzjōniz
accusative	*aimuzjōnų	*aimuzjōnunz
genitive	*aimuzjōniz	*aimuzjōnǫ̂
dative	*aimuzjōni	*aimuzjōmaz
instrumental	*aimuzjōnē	*aimuzjōmiz

Alternative reconstructions

*aimurjǭ[2]

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *aimuʀjā
- Old English: ǣmyrġe
  - Middle English: eymere
    - Scots: emmer, amer, aumer
    - English: ember
- Old Saxon: *ēmuria
  - Middle Low German: ēmere
    - →? Danish: emmer
- Old High German: eimuria
  - Middle High German: eimere, eimer
    - German: Eimer, Ammer (dialectal)
Old Norse: eimyrja
- Icelandic: eimyrja
- Faroese: eimyrja
- Norwegian Nynorsk: eimyrja, eimyrje
- Swedish: mörja

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aima-uzjōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 11
Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 253: “PNWGmc *aimurjōn-”

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aima-uzjōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 11

[2] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 253: “PNWGmc *aimurjōn-”