Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wajamērijaz

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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 *wai (woe) +‎ *mērijaz (renowned, famous).

Adjective

*wajamērijaz[1]

  1. disreputable, of ill fame

Inflection


Descendants

References

  1. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2005) “*waiamēr-, *waiamǣr-”, in Germanisches Wörterbuch, (5. Auflage) 2014

Further reading

  • Schulte, Michael (2005) “Die Übergangsinschriften. Aspekte Des Transitorischen laut- und Schreibungswandels”, in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, volume 60, number 1, Brill, →DOI, page 22:*/waj(a)maːriz/
  • Düwel, Klaus (1981) “Runeninschriften auf Waffen”, in Schmidt-Wiegand, Ruth, editor, Wörter und Sachen im Lichte der Bezeichnungsforschung (Arbeiten zur Frühmittelalterforschung), volume 1, De Gruyter, →DOI, page 133