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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/brōþer
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *brōþēr.
Noun
*brōþer m[1]
- brother
Inflection
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Old English: brōþor
- Middle English: brother, broþer, broþir, broþur, broder, broðer, brothir, brothur, broiþer, bruther, brodir, broder, brothre, broþre, brodyr
- English: brother (see there for further descendants)
- Scots: brither, bruther, broder, bruder
- Yola: brover, brower
- Middle English: brother, broþer, broþir, broþur, broder, broðer, brothir, brothur, broiþer, bruther, brodir, broder, brothre, broþre, brodyr
- Old Frisian: brōther
- North Frisian:
- Söl'ring: Bröðer
- Fering: bruder
- Hallig: bröör
- Halunder: Bruur
- Bökingharde: brouder
- Southern Goesharder: brööðer
- Saterland Frisian: Brour, Bruur
- West Frisian: broer
- North Frisian:
- Old Saxon: brōthar
- Middle Low German: brōder
- German Low German: Broor, Broder
- Plautdietsch: Brooda
- Middle Low German: brōder
- Old Dutch: *bruothar
- Middle Dutch: broeder
- Dutch: broeder, broer
- Afrikaans: broeder, broer
- Limburgish: broor
- Dutch: broeder, broer
- Middle Dutch: broeder
- Old High German: bruoder
- Middle High German: bruoder
- Alemannic German: Brüeder, Brueder
- Walser: briöder, bruder, brueder, bröder
- Bavarian: pruadar, prueder, pruider
- Cimbrian: pruudar, pruadar
- Mòcheno: pruader
- Central Franconian: Broder, Bruder
- German: Bruder
- Luxembourgish: Brudder
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: Bruder
- Vilamovian: brüder
- Yiddish: ברודער (bruder)
- Alemannic German: Brüeder, Brueder
- Middle High German: bruoder
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 117: “*brōþer”