Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/legr

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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 Proto-Germanic *legrą.

Noun

*legr n[1]

bed
lair

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*legr
Genitive	*legras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*legr	*legru
Accusative	*legr	*legru
Genitive	*legras	*legrō
Dative	*legrē	*legrum
Instrumental	*legru	*legrum

Descendants

Old English: leġer
- English: lair
Old Frisian: legor
Old Saxon: legar
- Middle Low German: leger
  - → Estonian: leer
Old Dutch: *leger
- Middle Dutch: lēger
  - Dutch: leger
    - Afrikaans: leër
Old High German: legar
- Middle High German: leger
  - German: Lager
    - → Dutch: lager (South African)
      - → English: laager
    - → English: lager
    - → Swedish: lager
    - → Norwegian:
      - Norwegian Bokmål: lager
      - Norwegian Nynorsk: lager
    - → Danish: lager
    - → Russian: ла́герь (lágerʹ)
    - → Estonian: laager

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 328: “PWGmc *legr”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 328: “PWGmc *legr”