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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kaisaraz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Borrowed at an early stage from Latin Caesar.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkɑi̯.sɑ.rɑz/
Noun
*kaisaraz m
- emperor (of Rome)
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *kaisaraz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *kaisaraz | *kaisarōz, *kaisarōs | |
vocative | *kaisar | *kaisarōz, *kaisarōs | |
accusative | *kaisarą | *kaisaranz | |
genitive | *kaisaras, *kaisaris | *kaisarǫ̂ | |
dative | *kaisarai | *kaisaramaz | |
instrumental | *kaisarō | *kaisaramiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *kaisar
- Old English: cāsere, cāsaer, cāser
- Middle English: casere, kasere; caser, casare, kasar
- Middle Scots: casar, casere, cazard
- Middle English: casere, kasere; caser, casare, kasar
- Old Frisian: kaiser, keiser
- Saterland Frisian: Kaiser
- West Frisian: keizer
- Old Saxon: kēsar, *keisari
- Middle Low German: *keisere
- Plautdietsch: Kjeisa
- → Old Norse: keisari
- Icelandic: keisari
- Faroese: keisari
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Bokmål: keiser
- Norwegian Nynorsk: keisar
- Swedish: kejsare
- Danish: kejser
- Gutnish: kaisare
- → Finnish: keisari
- Middle Low German: *keisere
- Old Dutch: keiser
- Middle Dutch: keiser
- Dutch: keizer
- Middle Dutch: keiser
- Old High German: keisar, keisur
- Middle High German: keiser
- German: Kaiser, Kayser, Käiser, Käyser, Keiser, Keyser
- → Russian: ка́йзер (kájzer, kájzɛr)
- Luxembourgish: Keeser
- German: Kaiser, Kayser, Käiser, Käyser, Keiser, Keyser
- → Middle English: kayser, caisare, caiser, caisoure, cayser, caysere, kaiser, kaisere, keiser
- ⇒ English: Kaiser, kaiser
- → Scots: Kaiser
- ⇒ English: Kaiser, kaiser
- Middle High German: keiser
- Old English: cāsere, cāsaer, cāser
- Old Norse: kjárr
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍂 (kaisar)
- → Proto-Slavic: *cěsařь (from an uncertain Germanic language; not directly from Proto-Germanic) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 296
- Ringe, Don; Ann Taylor (2014) The Development of Old English: a Linguistic History of English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136