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This Proto-West 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-West Germanic
Etymology
A European word, possibly of non-IE substrate origin. Cognate with Latin acer.[1]
Noun
*ahurn m[1]
- maple
Inflection
| Masculine a-stem
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Singular
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| Nominative
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*ahurn
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| Genitive
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*ahurnas
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*ahurn
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*ahurnō, *ahurnōs
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| Accusative
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*ahurn
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*ahurnā
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| Genitive
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*ahurnas
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*ahurnō
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| Dative
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*ahurnē
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*ahurnum
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| Instrumental
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*ahurnu
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*ahurnum
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Descendants
- Old Saxon: ahorn
- Old High German: ahorn, ahurn, acharn
- Middle High German: ahorn
- → Proto-Slavic: *àvorъ (see there for further descendants)
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*ahurna-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 7