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Old High German
Etymology
Most probably mēri (“great, renowned”, from Proto-West Germanic *mērijaz) + birin (“she-bear”) (cognate with Old English biren, Dutch berin, ultimately from Proto-Germanic *birinī, from *berô + *-inī), but in this form indistinguishable from a stem based on meri (“sea”) or *mēri (“boundary, cognate with Old Dutch *mēri”). First attested in the 8th or 9th C. CE
Proper noun
Meripirin
- (Bavarian) a female given name
Declension
The nominative singular of the jō-stems (Proto-West Germanic *-ī) was originally uninflected like the ō-stems; and the accusative form usually took its place. The old nominative singular is preserved in fem. personal names, and in the derivatives ending in *-inī and *-unjō. The jō-stems show in the oldest documents instead of -jō the ending -e and retain the j before o, u. From the 9th C. onwards, their inflection entirely coincides with that of the ō-stems, with -a replacing -e.
Descendants
- Middle High German: Merbirn (12th C.)
References
- ^ Schatz, Josef, 1871-1950 (1907) Altbairische Grammatik, Laut- und Flexionslehre (Grammatiken der althochdeutschen Dialekte; I. Band.) (in German), Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht, pages 125-126
- Sigmund Herzberg-Fränkel, editor (1904), “I: Dioecesis Salisburgensis: Regiones Salisburgensis et Bavarica”, in Necrologia Germaniae (Monumenta Germaniae Historica) (in Latin), Tomvs II Dioecesis Salisbvrgensis, Berolini: Apvd Weidmannos, →ISBN, →OCLC, Liber confraternitatum vetustior (784-11th C.), Monumenta Necrologica Monasterii S. Petri Salisburgensis, page 24, column 59, line 40