Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/laurubaʀi

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 *lauru, *lawuru (“laurel”), from Latin laurus, + *baʀi (“berry”).[1]

Noun

*laurubaʀi n

laurel berry

Inflection

Neuter ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*laurubaʀi
Genitive	*laurubaʀjas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*laurubaʀi	*laurubaʀju
Accusative	*laurubaʀi	*laurubaʀju
Genitive	*laurubaʀjas	*laurubaʀjō
Dative	*laurubaʀjē	*laurubaʀjum
Instrumental	*laurubaʀju	*laurubaʀjum

Alternative reconstructions

*lawurubaʀi

Descendants

Old English: laurberiġe, laurberie, laurberiġie
- Middle English: laurberiʒie, lawerberie
Old Saxon: *lōrberi, *laworberi
- Middle Low German: lôrbêre, lörbêre, lôrebêre, lorrebêre, laurbêr, lawerbêre, lawerbêse
  - German Low German:
    Mecklenburgisch: Luurbeer
    Low Prussian: Loorbeer
    Westphalian:
    Westmünsterländisch: Loorbeer
    - → North Frisian: loorbeer
  - → Danish: laurbær
    - → Faroese: lavrber
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: laurbær
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: laurbær
  - → Old Swedish: lagherbær, laverbær
    - Swedish: lagerbär
Old High German: lōrberi, lōrber
- Middle High German: lōrber, lōrbere
  - German: Lorbeer
  - Luxembourgish: Lorber
  - → Estonian: loorber

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Lorbeer”, 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 448

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Lorbeer”, 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 448