Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/durʀan

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 *durzaną.

Verb

*durʀan[1]

to dare

Inflection

*darʀ, *darst, *durʀun, *dorstā

This verb needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: durran
- Middle English: durren
  - Scots: daur
  - English: dare
Old Saxon: durran
- Low German: dören (sometimes merged with dörven, from *þurbaną)
Old Dutch: *durran
- Middle Dutch: dorren, durren
  - Dutch: durven (merged with *þurbaną)
    - Afrikaans: durf
Old High German: turran
- Middle High German: [Term?]
  - Cimbrian: töoran
  - German: thüren, türen

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180: “PWGmc *darr (with *rr < *rz levelled in from the pl.), *darst”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 180: “PWGmc *darr (with *rr < *rz levelled in from the pl.), *darst”