Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/habrō

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

From Proto-Germanic *habrô.^[1]

Noun

*habrō m

oats

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*habrō
Genitive	habrini, habran
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*habrō	*habran
Accusative	*habran	*habran
Genitive	habrini, habran	*habranō
Dative	habrini, habran	*habrum
Instrumental	habrini, habran	*habrum

Descendants

Old English: *hæfera
Old Frisian: *havera; *haver, *hever
- North Frisian:
  Föhr-Amrum: heewer
  
  Helgoland: Heewer
  
  Mooring: hääwer
  
  Wiedingharde: hääwer
- East Frisian:
  Harlingerland Frisian: heffer
  
  Saterland Frisian: Hoawer, Heeuwer
  
  Wangerooge Frisian: hüvvër, hǘvër
- West Frisian: hjouwer
  Schiermonnikoog: jeeuwer, jeeuwre
Old Saxon: habaro, havaro
- Middle Low German: hāvere, hāver
  - German Low German: Haver, Hafer, Hawer
    - → German: Hafer
  - Plautdietsch: Howa
Old Dutch: *havaro
- Middle Dutch: havere
  - Dutch: haver
    - Afrikaans: hawer
    - Jersey Dutch: hâver
    - → English: haversack
    - → Indonesian: haver
    - → Papiamentu: haver
    - → West Frisian: haver (dialectal)
Old High German: habaro
- Middle High German: habere, haber
  - Cimbrian: habarn pl
  - German: Haber
  - Luxembourgish: Huewer
  - Yiddish: האָבער (hober)

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*habran-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*habran-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 197

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