Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kruppaz

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

Traditionally derived from a Proto-Indo-European *grewb- (“to curve, bend, crawl”), from a root Proto-Indo-European *ger- (“to turn, wind (into a mass)”), and compared with Persian گروه (goruh, “group”),[1] though the reconstruction appears outdated (as more recent research reconstructs the proto-root as *grewbʰ-, see the entry for *kreupaną linked below), and the existence of a more fundamental root *ger- appears quite uncertain.

Kroonen tentatively considers the word an a-stem nominal formation related to *kruppōną (“to crawl”), itself the iterative to *kreupaną (“to crawl, writhe”), via sense development "to bend down and crawl" > "to bunch oneself into a clump-like shape".[2]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkrup.pɑz/

Noun

*kruppaz m

  1. a body; mass
  2. a compressed, round mass; lump; ball
  3. a group; bunch; collection
  4. (of harvest, fruit, plant, corn) a crop; bunch; cluster; head (of grain)
  5. (of a bird) a crop

Inflection

Declension of *kruppaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *kruppaz *kruppōz, *kruppōs
vocative *krupp *kruppōz, *kruppōs
accusative *kruppą *kruppanz
genitive *kruppas, *kruppis *kruppǫ̂
dative *kruppai *kruppamaz
instrumental *kruppō *kruppamiz

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Nourai, Ali (2011) “Ger 1”, in An Etymological Dictionary of Persian, English and other Indo-European Languages, page 143
  2. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kruppa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 307
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