Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/baraz

• *bariz
• *barizaz
• *barzą

From a Proto-Indo-European s-stem *bʰors-es- or *bʰor-es- (more traditionally reconstructed as *bʰars-), the further origin of which is uncertain; possibly from or related to *bʰers- (“tip, bristle; pointy, prickly”) (compare *barsaz, *burstiz), the sense of which may be preserved in the North Germanic descendants. For the semantic development, compare Albanian halë (“pointed tip, splinter; awn; pine needle”).
Cognate with Latin far n (“emmer; grits”) and fārīna f (“flour”), Faliscan 𐌅𐌀𐌓 (far, “emmer wheat”), Proto-Slavic *boršьno (“flour”), Old Irish bairgen f (“bread, loaf”), Welsh bara (“bread”), Breton bara (“bread”), Old Cornish bara, Albanian bar (“grass”), Proto-Slavic *bъrъ (“foxtail millet”) and perhaps Latvian barĩba (“food”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.rɑz/

*baraz n^[1][2]

1. awn ?

   Synonym: *ahanō

2. (North Germanic) spiky leaves
3. barley

   Synonym: *gerstō

• *barizaz (“barley”) (thematicized from the oblique stem)^[1]
  • Proto-West Germanic: *barī
    • Old English: bere
      • Middle English: bere, bare, ber (both rare)
        • English: bere, bear
        • Middle Scots: bere, beir, bair, bear
          • Scots: bear, bere
      • ⇒ Old English: bærlīċ
        • Middle English: barly, barlie, barlich, barlych, barlyche, barleche, barlick, barlykke, bareliche, berley
          • English: barley
          • Scots: barlie
          • Yola: baarich, barich, barish, barach, barlich
  • Gothic: *𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌶 (*bariz)
    • ⇒ Gothic: 𐌱𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌶𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (barizeins, “made of barley”) (+ -𐌴𐌹𐌽𐍃 (-eins), or directly from *barizīnaz^[3])

• Old Norse: barr (“barley; pine needles”)
  • Icelandic: barr
  • Faroese: barr
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bar
  • Old Swedish: bar
    • Swedish: barr