Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/humaraz

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

Likely a substrate borrowing from the same Mediterranean source as Ancient Greek κάραβος (kárabos, “beetle, crustacean”), κᾰ́μμᾰρος (kámmaros, “lobster, shrimp”) (the later whence Latin cammarus (“lobster”)), with hypothetical proto-form *km̥h₂-er-.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈxu.mɑ.rɑz/

Noun

*humaraz m

(North Germanic) lobster

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *humaraz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*humaraz	humarōz, humarōs
vocative	*humar	humarōz, humarōs
accusative	*humarą	*humaranz
genitive	humaras, humaris	*humarǫ̂
dative	*humarai	*humaramaz
instrumental	*humarō	*humaramiz

Related terms

*krabitaz (possibly)

Descendants

Old Norse: humarr
- Icelandic: humar
- Faroese: hummari
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hummar, humar
- Swedish: hummer
- Danish: hummer
  - Norwegian Bokmål: hummer
- → Middle Low German: *hummer
  - German Low German: Hummer
  - Dutch Low Saxon: hummer
    - → Dutch: hommer
  - → German: Hummer
  - → French: homard
    - → Bulgarian: омар (omar)
    - → Hungarian: homár
    - → Russian: ома́р (omár)
      - → Armenian: օմար (ōmar)
      - → Kazakh: омар (omar)
    - → Slovak: homár

References

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*humara-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 254

[1] Guus Kroonen (2013) “*humara-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 254

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