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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/gurą
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷʰer- (“warm; hot”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɣu.rɑ̃/
Noun
*gurą n
- half-digested stomach contents
- manure; dung; feces
- filth; muck
Inflection
neuter a-stemDeclension of *gurą (neuter a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *gurą | *gurō | |
vocative | *gurą | *gurō | |
accusative | *gurą | *gurō | |
genitive | *guras, *guris | *gurǫ̂ | |
dative | *gurai | *guramaz | |
instrumental | *gurō | *guramiz |
Related terms
- *gurwijō (“mud, marshes”)
- *gurwijaz (adjective)
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *gor
- Old English: gor; (gyr, gyre, gyra, gyru)
- Middle English: gor, gorre, gore; (güre, girre, gire)
- Scots: goor, gure
- English: gore
- Middle English: gor, gorre, gore; (güre, girre, gire)
- (Old Frisian: gēre, iēre, jēre)
- (Saterland Frisian: Jirre)
- (West Frisian: jarre)
- Old Saxon: *gor; (*goru)
- Middle Low German: gore; gore, gorre
- Old Dutch: gor (in placenames); (*gori (adjective))
- Middle Dutch: ghoor, goor; (goor, gore; gier, ghier (adjective))
- (Dutch: goor); (gier)
- Afrikaans: goor
- (Dutch: goor); (gier)
- Middle Dutch: ghoor, goor; (goor, gore; gier, ghier (adjective))
- Old High German: gor; (gurigabala)
- Middle High German: gor
- German: Gur, Guhr (archaic, dialectal)
- Middle High German: gor
- Old English: gor; (gyr, gyre, gyra, gyru)
- Old Norse: gor; (gjǫr)
- Icelandic: gor; gjör
- Faroese: gor
- Norwegian: gor
- Swedish: gorr, går
- Gothenburghian gör
- Old Danish: gor
- →? Proto-Finnic: *kura (“dirt, mud”)
- Estonian: kura
- Finnish: kura