Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ferhuz

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This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pérkus (oak), from the root *perkʷ- (oak).

The semantic development from (oak) tree to life; the universe, assuming they are indeed related, is somewhat puzzling, but may be paralleled in part by such abstractions as Ancient Greek ὕλη (húlē, wood, later “substance”), Latin māteria (timber; material, source, essence) and Old Armenian տարր (tarr, elementary substance, from *dru- (wood, tree)); the sense body (compare Punjabi ਕਾਠ (kāṭh, timber; body, physique)) would be intermediate and abstractify to life. However, the explanation may be more spiritual; as Kroonen describes, “the oak-tree symbolized vitality in Germanic mythology.” Note also the concept of the world tree, pervasive in Eurasian mythology, which to the Indo-Europeans was a large oak at the center of the world, and perhaps the axis around which the Earth or heavens spun (axis mundi).

Pronunciation

Noun

*ferhuz m

  1. (originally and in North Germanic) tree; oak tree?
    Synonyms: *aiks, *bagmaz, *ferhwą, *trewą
  2. body
  3. life, being, existence
    Synonyms: *ferhwą, *lībą
    1. (East Germanic) the world
      Synonym: *weraldiz

Inflection

Declension of *ferhuz (u-stem)
singular plural
nominative *ferhuz *ferhiwiz
vocative *ferhu *ferhiwiz
accusative *ferhų *ferhunz
genitive *ferhauz *ferhiwǫ̂
dative *ferhiwi *ferhumaz
instrumental *ferhū *ferhumiz

Descendants

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*ferhwa- 1”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 136-7