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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/airi
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *airi.
Adverb
*airi (comparative *airi, *airiʀō, superlative *airist(ō))
- early
Descendants
Due to the merger of the base form and comparative, the two were conflated in the descendants.
- Old English: ǣr
- Middle English: er
- English: ere
- Scots: air
- Yola: ear
- Middle English: er
- Old Frisian: ēr
- Saterland Frisian: eer
- ⇒ West Frisian: eardat, ear't
- Old Saxon: ēr
- Middle Low German: êr
- Old Dutch: ēr
- Middle Dutch: êer
- Dutch: eer
- Limburgish: ieër
- Middle Dutch: êer
- Old High German: ēr
- Middle High German: ēr, ē (loss of -r as in hie, dā)
- German: eher, ehe, eh
- Middle High German: ēr, ē (loss of -r as in hie, dā)