Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bermô

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Etymology

Uncertain: possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰér-mō ~ *bʰr̥-mnés,[1][2] from *bʰer- (“to boil”) (compare with Latin fermentum (“fermentation; yeast”)), or perhaps from *gʷʰér-mō ~ *gʷʰr̥-mnés,[3] from *gʷʰer- (“warm, hot”).

Pronunciation

Noun

*bermô m

  1. yeast

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *bermô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *bermô *bermaniz
vocative *bermô *bermaniz
accusative *bermanų *bermanunz
genitive *birminiz *bermanǫ̂
dative *birmini *bermammaz
instrumental *birminē *bermammiz

Descendants

References

  1. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 255: “*bher-m-n-”
  2. ^ Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 60
  3. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*krudda/ōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 306
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