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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hāring

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

Unknown;[1] possibly from *hār (“hair”) +‎ *-ing, named for its hair-like bones, compare Ancient Greek τριχίας (trikhías), τριχίς (trikhís, “type of anchovy”), from θρίξ (thríx, “hair”).[2][3]

Noun

*hāring m

  1. herring

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *hāring
Genitive *hāringas
Singular Plural
Nominative *hāring *hāringō, *hāringōs
Accusative *hāring *hāringā
Genitive *hāringas *hāringō
Dative *hāringē *hāringum
Instrumental *hāringu *hāringum

Alternative reconstructions
  • *haring

Descendants
  • Old English: hǣring
  • Old Frisian: hēreng
  • Old Saxon: *hāring
    • Middle Low German: hârink, hering
      • German Low German:
        Westphalian:
        East Westphalian (Lippisch): Hering
        South Westphalian (Dortmundisch), Westmünsterländisch: Hääring
        Westmünsterländisch: Heering
  • Old Dutch: *hāring
    • Middle Dutch: hârinc, hêrinc
      • Dutch: haring
        • Afrikaans: haring
        • Negerhollands: heriṅ
        • → Caribbean Hindustani: eleng
        • → Papiamentu: hering
      • Limburgish: hieëring
  • Old High German: hārinc, herinc
    • Middle High German: hærinc, hērinc
      • Central Franconian: Herrek (Ripuarian)
      • German: Hering (see there for further descendants)
      • Luxembourgish: Hierk
      • Yiddish: הערינג (hering)
    • Bavarian: Haring
  • → Late Latin: haringus (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Hering”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 306
  2. Vercoullie, Jozef (1925) “haring”, in Beknopt etymologisch woordenboek der Nederlandsche taal (in Dutch), 's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, page 104
  3. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*hēra-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 220
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