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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sturjô

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

Etymology

Possibly from a non-IE substrate doublet *asetr-, *str-.[1] Alternatively from Proto-Indo-European *sr̥Hyón-.[2] Possible cognate with Proto-Balto-Slavic *eśetras (sturgeon), Late Latin hapax fariō (= ſariō (salmon trout)).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈstur.jɔː/

Noun

*sturjô m

  1. sturgeon

Inflection


Descendants

Further reading

  • Witczak, Krzysztof Tomasz. 1991. "Indo-European *sr̥C in Germanic". Historische Sprachforschung 104:1, pp. 106–107.

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sturja/ōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 488
  2. Mallory, J. P., Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European world, Oxford University Press, page 147
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