< Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wurzô
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from or related to Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn (“virile man; male animal”), or perhaps from a lost substrate.
Noun
*(w)urzô ~ *ūrziniz m[1]
- grouse
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *worʀō ~ *ūrzini
- ⇒ Proto-West Germanic: *ūrʀahōn
- ⇒ Proto-West Germanic: *worʀahanō
- Old Norse: orri
- Faroese: orri
- Elfdalian: uorre m, yrkne, ynn f
- Swedish: orre
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*urzan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561