Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/arut

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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Unknown; possibly a substrate borrowing, compare Latin raudus (“lump (of ore, metal); bronze, brass”), and further Sumerian 𒍏 (urud, “copper”).[1][2]

Noun

*arut m

  1. ore

Inflection

Consonant stem
Singular
Nominative *arut
Genitive *aruti
Singular Plural
Nominative *arut *aruti
Accusative *arutu *aruti
Genitive *aruti *arutō
Dative *aruti *arutum
Instrumental *aruti *arutum

Alternative reconstructions

  • *arit

Descendants

  • Old Saxon: arut
  • Old Dutch: arut
  • Old High German: aruz, ariz

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*arut-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 37
  2. ^ Schrijver, Peter (1997) “Animal, vegetable and mineral: some Western European substratum words”, in Lubotsky, A., editor, Sound Law and Analogy‎[2], Amsterdam/Atlanta, page 308
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