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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/beuʀ
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *beuzą.
Noun
*beuʀ n[1]
- beer
Inflection
Neuter a-stem | ||
---|---|---|
Singular | ||
Nominative | *beuʀ | |
Genitive | *beuʀas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *beuʀ | *beuʀu |
Accusative | *beuʀ | *beuʀu |
Genitive | *beuʀas | *beuʀō |
Dative | *beuʀē | *beuʀum |
Instrumental | *beuʀu | *beuʀum |
Descendants
- Old English: bēor
- Middle English: bere, beere
- Scots: bere, beir, beer
- English: beer (see there for further descendants)
- Middle English: bere, beere
- Old Frisian: biār
- Saterland Frisian: Bjoor
- West Frisian: bier
- Old Saxon: bior
- Middle Low German: bêr
- Low German: Beer, Bier (Mecklenburg)
- Plautdietsch: Bea
- Middle Low German: bêr
- Old Dutch: *bier
- Middle Dutch: bier
- Dutch: bier (see there for further descendants)
- Afrikaans: bier
- Limburgish: beer
- → Old French: biere (see there for further descendants)
- Dutch: bier (see there for further descendants)
- Middle Dutch: bier
- Old High German: bior
- Middle High German: bier
- Alemannic German: Bier, Biär, Pier
- Bavarian: Bäia
- German: Bier (see there for further descendants)
- Luxembourgish: Béier
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: Bier
- Vilamovian: biyr
- Yiddish: ביר (bir)
- Middle High German: bier
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 174: “PWGmc *beur”