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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/durz
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Likely back-formed from *dʰur-ih₁, an old neuter dual form, from Proto-Indo-European *dʰwer-.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /durz/
Noun
*durz f[1]
- door, hatch, flap
Inflection
| consonant stemDeclension of *durz (consonant stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *durz | *duriz | |
| vocative | *dur | *duriz | |
| accusative | *durų | *durunz | |
| genitive | *duriz | *durǫ̂ | |
| dative | *duri | *durumaz | |
| instrumental | *durē | *durumiz | |
Usage notes
This word was a plurale tantum in Old Norse, and it might have been used in that way in Proto-Germanic as well (compare the same development with cognate *dvьri in most Slavic languages); this is further evident by its form in compound words (e.g. compare Old English ēagduru, Old High German ougatora, ougtora, Gothic 𐌰𐌿𐌲𐌰𐌳𐌰𐌿𐍂𐍉 (augadaurō)). In Old High German and Old Dutch it became a singular i-stem, which no doubt derives from the original plural. Old English and Old Saxon show a u-stem noun, which most likely derives from the singular because of the lack of umlaut.
Related terms
- *durą
Derived terms
- *durastudō
- *durawarduz
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *dur
- Old English: duru, doru
- Middle English: dore, doire, dure, dur
- English: door
- Sranan Tongo: doro
- Scots: dure, dur
- Yola: dher
- English: door
- Middle English: dore, doire, dure, dur
- Old Frisian: dure, dore
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: dör
- Mooring, Sylt: döör
- Saterland Frisian: Doore
- West Frisian: doar
- North Frisian:
- Old Saxon: duru
- Middle Low German: dȫr, dȫre
- Low German:
- German Low German:
- Hamburgisch: Dör
- Westphalian:
- Westmünsterländisch: Dööre, Döör
- German Low German:
- Plautdietsch: Däa
- Low German:
- Middle Low German: dȫr, dȫre
- Old Dutch: duri
- Middle Dutch: dōre, duere, dure
- Dutch: deur
- Middle Dutch: dōre, duere, dure
- Old High German: turi
- Middle High German: türe
- Alemannic German: Tüür, Tiire, Dire
- Bavarian: Dia
- Cimbrian: tür
- Mòcheno: tir
- Central Franconian: Dür, Diar
- Kölsch: Dör, Dür
- East Central German: Thüa(r) (Egerländisch)
- Upper Saxon: Düre
- German: Tür, Türe
- Luxembourgish: Dier
- Rhine Franconian:
- Palatine German: Deer
- Pennsylvania German: Dier
- Yiddish: טיר (tir)
- Middle High German: türe
- Old English: duru, doru
- Old Norse: dyrr pl
- Icelandic: dyr pl
- Faroese: dyr pl
- Norn: dør
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: dør
- Norwegian Nynorsk: dør
- Jamtish: dẃr
- Elfdalian: dörer
- Westrobothnian: dør
- Old Swedish: dyr
- Swedish: dörr
- Scanian: dør
- Danish: dør
- Gutnish: dur, duri
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*durī-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 110