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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/offr
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Borrowed from Late Latin offrum (“a sacrifice”), or a back-formation from *offrōn (“to offer up, sacrifice”), both from Latin offerō.
Noun
*offr n
- sacrifice, offering
Inflection
Neuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *offr | |
Genitive | *offras | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *offr | *offru |
Accusative | *offr | *offru |
Genitive | *offras | *offrō |
Dative | *offrē | *offrum |
Instrumental | *offru | *offrum |
Alternative reconstructions
- *offer
Descendants
- Old Frisian: offer
- Old Saxon: offar
- Middle Low German: opper, offer
- → Old Frisian: opper
- Middle Low German: opper, offer
- Old Dutch: *offar
- Middle Dutch: offer
- Dutch: offer
- Middle Dutch: offer
- Old High German: opfar, offar, ophar, opher
- Middle High German: opfer, opher, offer
- German: Opfer
- Hunsrik: Opfer
- Middle High German: opfer, opher, offer
Further reading
- Holthausen, Ferdinand (1954), “offar”, in Altsächsisches Wörterbuch (in German), Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, page 56
- Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Opfer”, 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 517