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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.
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂oys-éh₂, from *h₂eys- (“to respect”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
*aizō f[1]
- fear; reverence
- honour
Inflection
Declension of *aizō (ō-stem)
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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*aizō
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*aizôz
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vocative
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*aizō
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*aizôz
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accusative
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*aizǭ
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*aizōz
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genitive
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*aizōz
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*aizǫ̂
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dative
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*aizōi
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*aizōmaz
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instrumental
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*aizō
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*aizōmiz
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Derived terms
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *aiʀu
- Old English: ār, āre
- Old Frisian: ēre, ēr
- Saterland Frisian: Eere
- West Frisian: eare
- Old Saxon: ēra
- Middle Low German: ēre
- Low German: Ehr, Ehre
- → Old Norse: æra, eir
- Danish: ære
- Icelandic: æra
- Faroese: æra
- Norwegian Nynorsk: ære
- Norwegian Bokmål: ære
- Swedish: ära
- Icelandic: eir m or n
- Norwegian Nynorsk: eir n
- → Norwegian Bokmål: eir n
- Swedish: ärg c
- Danish: ir c
- Old Dutch: ēra
- Middle Dutch: êre
- Dutch: eer
- Afrikaans: eer
- Negerhollands: eer
- Limburgish: ieër
- Old High German: ēra
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aizō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 17