Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/habrō

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/habrō

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *habrô, probably from Proto-Indo-European *kapro- (“goat”).[1]

Noun

*habrō m

1. oats

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*habrō
Genitive	*habrini, *habran
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*habrō	*habran
Accusative	*habran	*habran
Genitive	*habrini, *habran	*habranō
Dative	*habrini, *habran	*habrum
Instrumental	*habrini, *habran	*habrum

Descendants

• Old English: *hæfera
• Old Frisian: *havera; *haver, *hever
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum: heewer

    Helgoland: Heewer

    Mooring: hääwer

    Wiedingharde: hääwer

  • East Frisian:

    Harlingerland Frisian: heffer

    Saterland Frisian: Hoawer, Heeuwer

    Wangerooge Frisian: hüvvër, hǘvër

  • West Frisian: hjouwer

    Schiermonnikoog: jeeuwer, jeeuwre

• Old Saxon: habaro, havaro
  • Middle Low German: hāvere, hāver
    • German Low German: Haver, Hafer, Hawer
      • → German: Hafer
    • Plautdietsch: Howa
• Old Dutch: *havaro
  • Middle Dutch: havere
    • Dutch: haver
      • Jersey Dutch: hâver
      • →⇒ English: haversack
      • → Papiamentu: haver
      • → West Frisian: haver (dialectal)
• Old High German: habaro
  • Middle High German: habere, haber
    • Cimbrian: habarn pl
    • German: Haber
    • Luxembourgish: Huewer
    • Yiddish: האָבער‎ (hober)

References

1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*habran-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197