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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/morhā
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *murhǭ.
Noun
*morhā f
- wild carrot
Inflection
| ōn-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *morhā | |
| Genitive | *morhōn | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *morhā | *morhōn |
| Accusative | *morhōn | *morhōn |
| Genitive | *morhōn | *morhōnō |
| Dative | *morhōn | *morhōm, *morhum |
| Instrumental | *morhōn | *morhōm, *morhum |
Related terms
- *morhu
Derived terms
- *morhilā, *morhulā
- Old Dutch: *morhila
- Dutch: morilje
- Old High German: morhilo, morhela
- German: Morchel
- → Vulgar Latin: *moricula[1]
- Old French: *morelle, *morele, morel
- Middle French: *morille, *morel
- French: morille
- → Dutch: morille
- → Middle English: morel
- English: morel
- → Picard: merouille, meroule
- Middle French: *morille, *morel
- Old Occitan:
- Catalan: múrgola
- Occitan: murigulo
- Old French: *morelle, *morele, morel
- Old Dutch: *morhila
Descendants
- Old English: more
- Middle English: more, moore, morre
- English: more (dialectal)
- → Welsh: moron
- Middle English: more, moore, morre
- Old Saxon: morha
- Middle Low German: more, mȫre
- ⇒ German Low German: Mohrenkopp
- →⇒ Swedish: morot
- Middle Low German: more, mȫre
- Old Dutch: *mora
- Middle Dutch: mōre
- Limburgish: moer
- Middle Dutch: mōre
- Old High German: morha, moraha
- Middle High German: morhe, morche
- German: Möhre
- ⇒ German: Mohrrübe
- Luxembourgish: Muert
- Yiddish: מייער (meyer)
- German: Möhre
- Middle High German: morhe, morche
References
- Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002), “*maurīcŭla”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volume 17: Germanismes: S–Z