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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sprutô
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *spreutaną (“to sprout”) + *-ô.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈspru.tɔːː/
Noun
*sprutô m
- that which sprouts; shoot, sprout
Inflection
| masculine an-stemDeclension of *sprutô (masculine an-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *sprutô | *sprutaniz | |
| vocative | *sprutô | *sprutaniz | |
| accusative | *sprutanų | *sprutanunz | |
| genitive | *sprutiniz | *sprutanǫ̂ | |
| dative | *sprutini | *sprutammaz | |
| instrumental | *sprutinē | *sprutammiz | |
Descendants
- Old English: sprota
- Middle English: sprote
- English: sprot
- Middle English: sprote
- Middle Dutch: sprote, sproot
- Old High German: sprozzo
- Middle High German: sprozze
- German: Sprosse
- Luxembourgish: Sprass
- Middle High German: sprozze
- Old Norse: sproti
- Icelandic: sproti
- Faroese: sproti
- Old Swedish: spruti, sproti
- Westrobothnian: sprȯta
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 470
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*sprutōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 367