Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/trewą

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

    From pre-Germanic *dréwom, from Proto-Indo-European *dóru (“tree”) (specifically the oblique stem *dréw-).[1]

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ˈtre.wɑ̃/

    Noun

    *trewą n

    1. tree
      Synonym: *bagmaz

    Inflection

    Declension of *trewą (neuter a-stem)
    singular plural
    nominative *trewą *trewō
    vocative *trewą *trewō
    accusative *trewą *trewō
    genitive *trewas, *triwis *trewǫ̂
    dative *trewai *trewamaz
    instrumental *trewō *trewamiz

    Derived terms

    Descendants

    • Proto-West Germanic: *treu
      • Old English: trēow
      • Old Frisian: trē
      • Old Saxon: trio, treo
        • >? Middle Low German: *têr
          • ⇒ Middle Low German: egeltêr, ekeltêr, egelentêr, ekelentêr m
      • Old Dutch: trio, treo
        • Middle Dutch: tree, tere
          • Dutch: teer (mostly in compounds, like appelteer and elzenteer)
      • Old High German: *tar m; *tra, *tara, *tora f (as in affultra, holuntra, mazzaltar, mazzoltra, rekkaltra, wehhaltra, etc.)
        • ⇒ Old High German: affoltra, affultra
          • Middle High German: affalter, apfalter
    • Old Norse: tré
      • Icelandic: tré
      • Faroese: træ
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: tre
      • Dalecarlian: trai
      • Old Swedish: trǣ
        • Swedish: trä (“wood”), träd (“tree”) (from the definite)
      • Scanian: træ
      • Danish: træ
        • Norwegian Bokmål: tre
    • Gothic: 𐍄𐍂𐌹𐌿 (triu)

    References

    1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*trewa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 522-3
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