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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hāring
Proto-West Germanic
Alternative forms
- *haring
Etymology
Unknown;[1] possibly from *hār (“hair”) + *-ing, named for its hair-like bones, compare Ancient Greek τριχίας (trikhías), τριχίς (trikhís, “type of anchovy”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”).[2][3]
Noun
*hāring m
- herring
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *hāring | |
Genitive | *hāringas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *hāring | *hāringō, *hāringōs |
Accusative | *hāring | *hāringā |
Genitive | *hāringas | *hāringō |
Dative | *hāringē | *hāringum |
Instrumental | *hāringu | *hāringum |
Descendants
- Old English: hǣring
- Middle English: hering, hereng, heiring, herring; hæring, haring
- English: herring
- Scots: hering, herring, herrin, haring
- Yola: hereen, heereen
- Middle English: hering, hereng, heiring, herring; hæring, haring
- Old Frisian: hēreng
- Saterland Frisian: Hiering, Häiring
- West Frisian: hjerring
- Old Saxon: *hāring
- Middle Low German: hârink, hering
- German Low German:
- Westphalian:
- East Westphalian (Lippisch): Hering
- South Westphalian (Dortmundisch), Westmünsterländisch: Hääring
- Westmünsterländisch: Heering
- Westphalian:
- German Low German:
- Middle Low German: hârink, hering
- Old Dutch: *hāring
- Middle Dutch: hârinc, hêrinc
- Dutch: haring
- Afrikaans: haring
- Negerhollands: heriṅ
- → Caribbean Hindustani: eleng
- → Papiamentu: hering
- Limburgish: hieëring
- Dutch: haring
- Middle Dutch: hârinc, hêrinc
- Old High German: hārinc, herinc
- Middle High German: hærinc, hērinc
- Central Franconian: Herrek (Ripuarian)
- German: Hering
- → Estonian: heeringas
- → Hungarian: hering
- → Macedonian: харинга (haringa)
- → Romanian: hering
- → Serbo-Croatian: haringa
- Luxembourgish: Hierk
- Yiddish: הערינג (hering)
- Middle High German: hærinc, hērinc
- → Medieval Latin: hārengus, hāringus [1088, France] (see there for further descendants)
References
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Hering”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 306
- Vercoullie, Jozef (1925), “haring”, in Beknopt etymologisch woordenboek der Nederlandsche taal (in Dutch), 's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, page 104
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*hēra-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 220