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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/laurubaʀi

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

From *lauru, *lawuru (“laurel”), from Latin laurus, + *baʀi (“berry”).[1]

Noun

*laurubaʀi n

  1. laurel berry

Inflection
Neuter ja-stem
Singular
Nominative *laurubaʀi
Genitive *laurubaʀjas
Singular Plural
Nominative *laurubaʀi *laurubaʀju
Accusative *laurubaʀi *laurubaʀju
Genitive *laurubaʀjas *laurubaʀjō
Dative *laurubaʀjē *laurubaʀjum
Instrumental *laurubaʀju *laurubaʀjum

Alternative reconstructions
  • *lawurubaʀi

Descendants
  • Old English: laurberiġe, laurberie, laurberiġie
    • Middle English: laurberiʒie, lawerberie
  • Old Saxon: *lōrberi, *laworberi
    • Middle Low German: lôrbêre, lörbêre, lôrebêre, lorrebêre, laurbêr, lawerbêre, lawerbêse
      • German Low German:
        Mecklenburgisch: Luurbeer
        Low Prussian: Loorbeer
        Westphalian:
        Westmünsterländisch: Loorbeer
        • → North Frisian: loorbeer
      • → Danish: laurbær
        • → Faroese: lavrber
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: laurbær
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: laurbær
      • → Old Swedish: lagherbær, laverbær
        • Swedish: lagerbär
  • Old High German: lōrberi, lōrber
    • Middle High German: lōrber, lōrbere

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Lorbeer”, 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 448
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