Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ahaʀ

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ahaz. The final -z, which should have been lost in Proto-West Germanic, was reintroduced on the basis of the inflected forms.

Noun

*ahaʀ n[1]

ear (of grain)

Inflection

Stem *ahiʀ-

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: ēar, æhher
- Middle English: eere, ear, ere, er, ȝer, eyre
  - English: ear
  - Scots: aicher, icker, aiker (< æhher)
Old Frisian: *ēr
- Saterland Frisian: Iere
- West Frisian: ier
Old Saxon: ahar, ahir, ehir
- Middle Low German: ār
  - Low German: Ohr
  - Plautdietsch: Oa
Old Dutch: *ār
- Middle Dutch: aer
  - Dutch: aar
Old High German: ahir, ahar, ehir
- Middle High German: eher, äher
  - Alemannic German: Äli
  - Central Franconian: Ohr, Öhr, Ähr, Ähjer, Iehr
    - Luxembourgish: Éi
  - German: Ähre
  - Vilamovian: yjer

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 54: “PWGmc *ahaz- ~ *ahiz-”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 54: “PWGmc *ahaz- ~ *ahiz-”