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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þrumą
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Etymology uncertain. R. Meringer (Idg. Forsch. 21 (1907), 299) compared τέρμα (térma), terminus (Proto-Indo-European *térmn̥).
Inflection
neuter a-stemDeclension of *þrumą (neuter a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *þrumą | *þrumō | |
vocative | *þrumą | *þrumō | |
accusative | *þrumą | *þrumō | |
genitive | *þrumas, *þrumis | *þrumǫ̂ | |
dative | *þrumai | *þrumamaz | |
instrumental | *þrumō | *þrumamiz |
Related terms
- *þrumǭ
Descendants
- Old English: *þrum (in tunge-þrum "sublinguae; a ligament of the tongue")
- Middle English: throm
- English: thrum (“end of the warp threads; a tuft or tassel”)
- Middle English: throm
- Old Saxon: thrumi
- Middle Dutch: drom, drum
- Dutch: drom, dreum
- Old High German: trum, drum; demil (“beam”)
- Old Norse: þrǫmr (“edge, border, brim”)
References
- “Trumm” in Deutsches Wörterbuch von Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm, 16 vols., Leipzig 1854–1961.
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