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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/narrō

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; possibly related to Middle High German narren (“to snarl”), English snarl (“to snar”), German schnarren (“to snarl”), all from Proto-Indo-European *(s)ner-.[1][2] Alternatively, suggested to be borrowed from Vulgar Latin *naricāre (“to taunt”) +‎ *-ō (agent noun suffix), whence French narguer (“to taunt”), perhaps with the orignal meaning “to wrinkle up one's nose”, from Latin nāris (“nose”).[3][4]

Noun

*narrō m[2]

  1. a fool

Inflection
Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *narrō
Genitive *narrini, *narran
Singular Plural
Nominative *narrō *narran
Accusative *narran *narran
Genitive *narrini, *narran *narranō
Dative *narrini, *narran *narrum
Instrumental *narrini, *narran *narrum

Derived terms
  • *narrahaidu
    • Old Saxon: *narhēd
      • Middle Low German: narhēt, narheit
    • Old Dutch: *narheid
      • Middle Dutch: narheit
    • Old High German: narraheit, narheit
      • Middle High German: narrecheit, narricheit, narrekeit
  • *narrēn
    • Old Frisian: *narria
      • West Frisian: narjen
    • Old Saxon: *narron
      • Middle High German: narren
        • German Low German: närren, narren, naren
        • ⇒ Middle High German: genarren
    • Old High German: *narrēn
      • Middle High German: narren
      • ⇒ Old High German: irnarrēn
  • *narrisk
    • Old Saxon: *nerrisk
      • Middle Low German: narrisch, narsch
        • German Low German: närrisch, närrisk, närrsch, närrsk, närrs
    • Old High German: *nerrisk

Descendants
  • Old Frisian: *narra
  • Old Saxon: *narro
    • Middle Low German: narre, nar
      • German Low German: Narr
      • → Danish: nar
      • → Icelandic: narr, narri
      • → Norwegian: narr
      • → Swedish: narr (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Dutch: *narro
  • Old High German: narro
    • Middle High German: narre
      • Alemannic German: Narr
      • Bavarian: Noar (see there for further descendants)
      • German: Narr (see there for further descendants)
      • Pennsylvania German: Narr
      • Yiddish: נאַר (nar)

References
  1. Pokorny, Julius (1959) “1. (s)ner-, (s)nur-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 975
  2. Lloyd, Albert L., Lühr, Rosemarie (1988) “narro”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (in German), Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 819-820: “westgerm. *narran-”
  3. van Veen, P.A.F., van der Sijs, Nicoline (1997) “nar”, in Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden (in Dutch), Utrecht, Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie, →ISBN
  4. Brachet, Auguste (1882) “NARGUER”, in G. W. Kitchin, transl., An Etymological Dictionary of the French Language [Crowned by the French Academy], 3rd edition, Clarendon Press, page 263: “from L. naricare* (properly to wrinkle up the nose, as a sign of contempt), from L. naricus*, der. from naris”
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