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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/turbz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *derbʰ- (“tuft, grass”).Don Ringe argues that the lack of a-mutation in Old High German shows that zurba must have originally been a consonant stem.[1] In addition, Old English turf clearly shows a consonant-stem declension.In many of the descendants, the noun was thematized early on enough to cause a-mutation in the descendant forms.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈturβz/
Noun
*turbz m or f
- turf, peat [2]
Inflection
consonant stemDeclension of *turbz (consonant stem) | |||
---|---|---|---|
singular | plural | ||
nominative | *turbz | *turbiz | |
vocative | *turb | *turbiz | |
accusative | *turbų | *turbunz | |
genitive | *turbiz | *turbǫ̂ | |
dative | *turbi | *turbumaz | |
instrumental | *turbē | *turbumiz |
Related terms
- *turbijaną
- *turbōną
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *turb
- Old English: turf f
- Middle English: turf, turfe, torf, tourfe
- English: turf
- Scots: turr, truff
- Yola: thrive
- Middle English: turf, turfe, torf, tourfe
- Old Frisian: turf
- >? Saterland Frisian: Toarks
- West Frisian: turf (also possibly from Dutch)
- Old Saxon: *torf, turf m
- Middle Low German: torf m
- German Low German: Torf
- → German: Torf
- Polish: torf
- Portuguese: turfa
- Russian: торф (torf)
- → Abkhaz: а-то́рф (a-tʼórf)
- → Armenian: տորֆ (torf)
- → Azerbaijani: torf
- → Georgian: ტორფი (ṭorpi)
- → Ossetian: торф (torf)
- Middle Low German: torf m
- Old French: torbe
- French: tourbe
- → Italian: torba
- French: tourbe
- Old Dutch: *torf, *turf
- Middle Dutch: turf, torf m
- Dutch: turf m
- Middle Dutch: turf, torf m
- >? Old High German: zurft f (doubtful; singularily attested and phonetically irregular)
- Old English: turf f
- Old Norse: torf n, torfa f
- Icelandic: torf n
- Faroese: torv n
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian: torv n or m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: torv n or f
- Old Swedish: torf n or f, törf n or f
- Swedish: torv c, torva c
- Danish: tørv c
- Westrobothnian: tarv f, tarv n
- Norman: torve
- → Proto-Finnic: *turbeh, *turbas(see there for further descendants)
References
- Ringe, Don; Ann Taylor (2014) The Development of Old English: a Linguistic History of English, Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 28
- De Vaan, Michiel (2008) Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN