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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hafr
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hafraz.
Noun
*hafr m[1]
- male goat
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *hafr | *hafrō, *hafrōs |
Accusative | *hafr | *hafrā |
Genitive | *hafras | *hafrō |
Dative | *hafrē | *hafrum |
Instrumental | *hafru | *hafrum |
Descendants
- Old English: hæfer
- Old Saxon: *havar
- ⇒ Middle Low German: hāverbuk, hāverbok
- Old High German: *habar
- Middle High German: *haber
- ⇒ German: Habergeiß (dialectal)
- Middle High German: *haber
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 147: “PWGmc *hafr”