Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skūrō

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.

Of disputed origin:

• From a Proto-Indo-European root variously reconstructed as Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱēwer- (“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”) or Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱyeh₂w- (“north; north wind; cold wind; rain shower”), in the latter case in the ablaut form *(s)ḱyh̥₂u-. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *sě̀verъ (“north”), Lithuanian šiaurỹs (“north wind”) and Lithuanian šiáurė (“north”). This theory is tentatively supported by Orel,^[1] but rejected by Kroonen, apparently due to the rather tenuous semantics.^[2]
• From Proto-Indo-European *(s)ḱew- (“to stir up, excite”); or from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kewH- (“to cover”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)
• According to Kroonen, from an earlier *skewur, from Proto-Indo-European *skéh₃-ur, the ur-stem of *(s)ḱeh₃- (“shade, shadow”) (which Kroonen reconstructs as *skeh₁-).^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈskuː.rɔː/

*skūrō f^[1][2]

2. storm

   Synonym: *sturmaz

4. short shower (of rain / hail)

• Proto-West Germanic: *skūru
  • Old English: sċūr f (if not a spurious gender change of *skūr)
    • Middle English: schour, schoure, schowre, schoure, shour, shoure, shower, showre, scur, shur (Early Middle English)
      • English: shower
      • Scots: shour, shouer, shoor, shooer
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌺𐌿𐍂𐌰 (skūra)
• → Proto-Finnic: *kuuro (see there for further descendants)
• →? Finnish: kuura

Related to an earlier *sku(w)enjō- (whence modern German Scheune (“barn”)),^[2] from *sku(w)en-, possibly from the dative form *sku(w)eni, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *skuH-ro-, from *(s)kewH- (“to cover”), related to Sanskrit स्कुनाति (skunāti, “he covers, protects”).^[3] Alternatively, the pre-form *sku(w)enjō- is considered by Kroonen to stem from the same root as the "shower" sense of Etymology 1.^[2]

*skūrō f

2. shelter, shack

• *hūsą (“house”)
• *skeulą (“shelter, hiding place”)
• *skiulijaną (“to shelter, hide”)

• Proto-West Germanic: *skūru
  • Old Frisian: skūre
    • West Frisian: skuorre
  • Old Saxon: skūr
    • Middle Low German: schūr, schure, schüre
      • Low German: Schüür
      • → Estonian: kuur
      • →? Old Norse: *skúrr
        • Icelandic: skúr
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: skur
    • → Old High German: scūr (probably; perhaps native)
      • Middle High German: schūr
        • German: Schauer (dialectal)
  • Old Dutch: skūra
    • Middle Dutch: scūre
      • Dutch: schuur
        • Afrikaans: skuur
  • Old High German: skiura, skūra
    • Middle High German: schiure, schūre
      • German: Scheuer
      • Transylvanian Saxon: Schyre, Schure
        • → Romanian: șură
    • → Italian: scuro
    • → Old French: escure
  • Salian Frankish: *screunu (mixed with the word which is now German Scheune, or this represents a different oblique stem)
    • → Medieval Latin: screona, screuna
    • → Old French: escriene, escraingne, escrienne, escrainge, ecrene, escreigne
      • Middle French: escriegne, escraigne, escrangne, escregne, escrene, escrenne, ecreigne, ecraigne
        • French: écrenne, écraigne (obsolete, a sort of underground, insulated peasant house, covered with manure)