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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/berō
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *berô.
Noun
*berō m
- bear
Inflection
Masculine an-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *berō | |
Genitive | *berini, *beran | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *berō | *beran |
Accusative | *beran | *beran |
Genitive | *berini, *beran | *beranō |
Dative | *berini, *beran | *berum |
Instrumental | *berini, *beran | *berum |
Descendants
- Old English: bera
- Middle English: bere, bier, beare, beore, bore
- English: bear (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: beir
- Middle English: bere, bier, beare, beore, bore
- >? Old English: beorn
- Old Frisian: *bera, *bara
- Saterland Frisian: Boar
- West Frisian: bear
- Old Saxon: bero
- Middle Low German: bar, bāre
- German Low German: Baar, Boor
- Plautdietsch: Boa
- Middle Low German: bar, bāre
- Old Dutch: *bero
- Middle Dutch: bēre
- Dutch: beer
- Afrikaans: beer
- → Papiamentu: ber, beer
- Limburgish: baer
- West Flemish: beir
- Zealandic: beêr
- Dutch: beer
- Middle Dutch: bēre
- Old High German: bero
- Middle High German: bër
- Alemannic German: Bärr
- Cimbrian: per
- German: Bär
- Hunsrik: Bäer
- Luxembourgish: Bier
- Vilamovian: baor
- Yiddish: בער (ber)
- Middle High German: bër