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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hlahtraz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *hlahjaną (“to laugh”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxlɑx.trɑz/
Noun
*hlahtraz m
- laughter
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *hlahtraz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *hlahtraz | *hlahtrōz, *hlahtrōs | |
vocative | *hlahtr | *hlahtrōz, *hlahtrōs | |
accusative | *hlahtrą | *hlahtranz | |
genitive | *hlahtras, *hlahtris | *hlahtrǫ̂ | |
dative | *hlahtrai | *hlahtramaz | |
instrumental | *hlahtrō | *hlahtramiz |
Related terms
- *hlahtruz
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *hlahtr
- Old English: hleahtor
- Middle English: laughter, laghter, laȝter
- Scots: lachter, lauchter
- English: laughter
- Middle English: laughter, laghter, laȝter
- Old Saxon: *hlahtar
- Middle Low German: lachter
- Old High German: lahtar, hlahtar
- Middle High German: lahter, gelehter
- German: Gelächter
- Middle High German: lahter, gelehter
- Old English: hleahtor
- Old Norse: hlátr
- Icelandic: hlátur
- Faroese: látur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: lått
- → Norwegian Bokmål: lått
- Old Swedish: lāter
- Danish: latter
- Norwegian Bokmål: latter
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: latter
- Norwegian Bokmål: latter
- Gutnish: latter
- Scanian: latter
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*hlahtra-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN