< Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hē₂r
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *hiz + *-r. There is compensatory lengthening of the vowel after loss of /z/ before /r/ by rhotacism, but the origin of the e₂-vowel is not known.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /xeːr/
Adverb
*hē₂r
- (demonstrative) here, in this place
Related terms
- *þar
- *hwar
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *hēr
- Old English: hēr
- Middle English: her, here, heer
- English: here
- Scots: her, here
- Middle English: her, here, heer
- Old Frisian: hīr
- Saterland Frisian: hier
- West Frisian: hjir
- Old Saxon: hēr, hīr
- Middle Low German: hêr, hîr, hîre
- Low German: hier
- Plautdietsch: hia, häa
- Middle Low German: hêr, hîr, hîre
- Old Dutch: *hiar, hier, hiera
- Middle Dutch: hier
- Dutch: hier, her
- Afrikaans: hier
- Limburgish: hier; hie, heej (influenced by High German)
- Dutch: hier, her
- Middle Dutch: hier
- Old High German: hia, hiar
- Middle High German: hie
- Alemannic German: hie
- Bavarian: hia
- Cimbrian: hia
- Central Franconian: hee, hie
- German: hie
- Luxembourgish: hei
- Middle High German: hier
- German: hier
- Middle High German: hie
- Old English: hēr
- Old Norse: hér
- Icelandic: hér
- Faroese: her
- Norwegian: her
- Old Swedish: hær, hiær
- Swedish: här, (dialectal) héer, hera
- Danish: her
- Elfdalian: jär
- Gutnish: hjär, hjä
- Westrobothnian: hjär, schär
- Gothic: 𐌷𐌴𐍂 (hēr)