Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/strumpaz

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

Alternative reconstructions

*strampaz

Etymology

According to Pfeiffer, from a Proto-Indo-European *stremb-, *stremp- (“stump, short”), from a nasal labial extension of *sterh₁- (“to be stiff”); compare Proto-Germanic *staraz (“stiff”),^[1] as well as Latvian strumps (“short”), which appears to be particularly close in formation.^[2]

Noun

*strumpaz m

stem, stalk

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *strumpaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*strumpaz	strumpōz, strumpōs
vocative	*strump	strumpōz, strumpōs
accusative	*strumpą	*strumpanz
genitive	strumpas, strumpis	*strumpǫ̂
dative	*strumpai	*strumpamaz
instrumental	*strumpō	*strumpamiz

Descendants

Old Frisian: strumphalt
Old Saxon: *strump
- Middle Low German: strump
  - Low German: strumpel
    - → Dutch: stromp
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: strømpe
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: strump, strømpe
  - → Swedish: strumpa
  - → Danish: strumpe, strømpe
Old Dutch:
- Middle Dutch: strompen
  - Dutch: strompen, strompelen
Old High German: *strumpf
- Middle High German: strumpf
  - German: Strumpf
  - Hunsrik: Strump
  - Luxembourgish: Strëmp
Old Norse: *stroppr
- Norwegian: stropp (dialectal)

References

^ “Strumpf” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*strumpaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 382

[1] “Strumpf” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache

[2] Vladimir Orel (2003) “*strumpaz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 382

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