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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wurzô

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

Uncertain; possibly from or related to Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn (“virile man; male animal”), or perhaps from a lost substrate.

Noun

*(w)urzô ~ *ūrziniz m[1]

  1. grouse

Inflection

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Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic: *worʀō ~ *ūrzini
  • Old Norse: orri
    • Elfdalian: uorre m, yrkne, ynn f
    • Faroese: orri
    • Norwegian Bokmål: orre
    • Swedish: orre

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*urzan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561
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