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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/arut
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]
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
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*arut-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 37
- Schrijver, Peter (1997) “Animal, vegetable and mineral: some Western European substratum words”, in Lubotsky, A., editor, Sound Law and Analogy, Amsterdam/Atlanta, page 308 of 293–316
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