Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þrumą

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

Of uncertain origin. R. Meringer compares Ancient Greek τέρμα (térma, “end, boundary, goal”), Latin terminus (“boundary, term”), both from Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥ (“boundary”)),[1] which, if correct, invokes an older sense of "stone or piece (used to mark a boundary)".

Noun

*þrumą n[2]

  1. stump, trunk, block; butt, end

Inflection

Declension of *þrumą (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *þrumą *þrumō
vocative *þrumą *þrumō
accusative *þrumą *þrumō
genitive *þrumas, *þrumis *þrumǫ̂
dative *þrumai *þrumamaz
instrumental *þrumō *þrumamiz
  • *þrumǭ

Descendants

  • Old English: *þrum (in tunge-þrum "sublinguae; a ligament of the tongue")
    • Middle English: throm
      • English: thrum (“end of the warp threads; a tuft or tassel”)
  • Old Saxon: thrumi
  • Middle Dutch: drom, drum
  • Old High German: trum, drum; demil (“beam”)
    • Middle High German: trum, drum; treme, trempel (“supporting pillar”), trame, drame (“beam”)
      • German: Trumm (“large block, lump”), Trümmer (“debris”); Tremel (“trunk”)
  • Old Norse: þrǫmr (“edge, border, brim”)
    • Norwegian: tröm, trumm, tram
    • Swedish: tröm, trumm, trom (“trunk, block of wood”)

References

  1. ^ R. Meringer, Idg. Forsch. 21 (1907), 299
  2. ^ “Trumm” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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