Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/daru

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *darō.

Noun

*daru f[1]

injury

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*daru
Genitive	*darā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*daru	*darō
Accusative	*darā	*darā
Genitive	*darā	*darō
Dative	*darē	*darōm
Instrumental	*daru	*darōm

Descendants

Old English: daru, dæru
- Middle English: dere
  - Scots: dere
  - English: dere
Old Saxon: *dara
- Middle Low German: dere
Old Dutch: *dara
- Middle Dutch: dāre, dēre
  - Dutch: deer
Old High German: tara

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196: “PWGmc *daru”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196: “PWGmc *daru”