Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hūʀiju

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

From *hūʀijan (“to hire; to pay”) +‎ *-u.

Noun

*hūʀiju f

payment, hire
(monetary) interest

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hūʀiju
Genitive	*hūʀijā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hūʀiju	*hūʀijō
Accusative	*hūʀijā	*hūʀijā
Genitive	*hūʀijā	*hūʀijō
Dative	*hūʀijē	*hūʀijōm
Instrumental	*hūʀiju	*hūʀijōm

Derived terms

*hūʀijuling

Descendants

Old English: hȳr
- Middle English: hire, hyre, hure, here, huyre
  - English: hire
  - Scots: hire
Old Frisian: hēr, hēre
- Saterland Frisian: Híere, (Strukelje) Häire
- West Frisian: hier
- ⇒ Old Frisian: hūshēre
  - Saterland Frisian: Hushire
- ⇒ Old Frisian: londhēre
Old Saxon: hūria, hūra
- Middle Low German: hüre, huere, hyre, hüer, hür
  - German Low German:
    Altmärkisch: Hü̂r
    Westphalian:
    Ravensbergisch: Huür
    Westmünsterländisch: Höier
  - → German: Heuer
  - → Danish: hyre
  - → Norwegian: hyre
  - → Swedish: hyra
  - → Faroese: hýra
Old Dutch: *hūra
- Middle Dutch: hûre
  - Dutch: huur
    - Afrikaans: huur
    - Negerhollands: huur
    - → Papiamentu: hür
    - → Sranan Tongo: yuru
      - → Caribbean Hindustani: yuru
      - → Caribbean Javanese: yuru
- ⇒? Old Dutch: forahūra
- ⇒ Old Dutch: hūrlant
- ⇒ Old Dutch: hūrware