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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/marhijā
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *marhī.
Noun
*marhijā f[1]
- mare, female horse
Inflection
ōn-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *marhijā | |
Genitive | *marhijōn | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *marhijā | *marhijōn |
Accusative | *marhijōn | *marhijōn |
Genitive | *marhijōn | *marhijōnō |
Dative | *marhijōn | *marhijōm |
Instrumental | *marhijōn | *marhijōm |
Descendants
- Old English: miere, mȳre, mīre
- Middle English: mere, mare
- English: mare
- Scots: meir, mere, mear
- Middle English: mere, mare
- Old Frisian: merie
- North Frisian: mar
- Saterland Frisian: Määre
- West Frisian: merje
- Old Saxon: meriha
- Middle Low German: mēre, mērie
- Old Dutch: *meria, merie
- Middle Dutch: merie
- Dutch: merrie
- Afrikaans: merrie
- Dutch: merrie
- Middle Dutch: merie
- Old High German: meriha
- Middle High German: meriche, merhe
- Alemannic German: Märe
- German: Mähre
- Middle High German: meriche, merhe
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 243: “PWGmc *marhijā”