Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/warō

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

Alternative forms

*wazō
*warǭ (North Germanic)

Etymology

Uncertain. It is uncertain whether the urform was *warō or *wazō. If *warō, then from Proto-Indo-European *wer- (“to heed, watch, guard, protect”).^[1] If *wazō, then from Proto-Indo-European *wes- (“to sell”).

Noun

*warō f^[1]

a good, merchandise, ware

Inflection

Declension of *warō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*warō	*warôz
vocative	*warō	*warôz
accusative	*warǭ	*warōz
genitive	*warōz	*warǫ̂
dative	*warōi	*warōmaz
instrumental	*warō	*warōmiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *waru (or *waʀu)
- Old English: waru
  - Middle English: ware
    - English: ware
    - Scots: ware, war, wair
- Old Frisian: ware, were
  - Saterland Frisian: Were
  - West Frisian: waar
- Old Saxon: wara
  - Middle Low German: ware, war, wāre, wār
    - German Low German: Ware, Waar, Woor
- Old Dutch: *wara
  - Middle Dutch: ware
    - Dutch: waar
      - Afrikaans: waar
- Old High German: *wara
  - Middle High German: ware, war
    - German: Ware
Old Norse: vara (< Proto-Germanic *warǭ)
- Icelandic: vara
- Faroese: vøra
- Norwegian Bokmål: vare
- Norwegian Nynorsk: vare
- Old Swedish: vara
  - Swedish: vara
- Old Danish: waræ
  - Danish: vare
→ Proto-Finnic: *vara (see there for further descendants)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*warō(n)”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 450

[HGE-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Vladimir Orel (2003) “*warō(n)”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 450

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