Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wargaz

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.

An assumed inheritance supposes a Proto-Indo-European *werǵʰ- (“to turn, twist, press, constrict, strangle”), but it derives easily in Proto-Slavic *vorgъ, e.g. *izъvьrgnǫti (“to cast out”), regularly cognate to Latin urgēre and in Germanic *wrekaną (“to pursue, to persecute”).^[1] See also *argaz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈwɑr.ɣɑz/

*wargaz m

1. outlaw, criminal
2. wolf

   Synonym: *wulfaz

• *wargijaną
• *warginī

• Proto-West Germanic: *warg
  • Old English: wearg, warg, werg, wearh
    • Middle English: wari, weri
    • → Medieval Latin: wargus, vargus
      • → English: wargus
  • Old Saxon: warg, warag
  • Old Dutch: *warg
    • Middle Dutch: werch, warch
      • Dutch: warg
  • Old High German: warg
    • Middle High German: warc
• Old Norse: vargr, *wargʀ — Old East Norse
  • Icelandic: vargur
  • Faroese: vargur
  • Norn: varg
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: varg
  • Elfdalian: warg
  • Old Swedish: vargher
    • Swedish: varg
  • Danish: varg
    • Norwegian Bokmål: varg
  • → English: warg (learned)
• Gothic: *𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌲𐍃 (*wargs)
  • ⇒ Gothic: 𐌻𐌰𐌿𐌽𐌰𐍅𐌰𐍂𐌲𐍃 (launawargs)
• → Proto-Finnic: *vargas (see there for further descendants)

• Seebold, E. (2018). “Beraubung von Toten und die Acht in vor- und frühchristlicher Zeit”, in Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik, 78(4), pp. 389-414. doi: https://doi.org/10.1163/18756719-12340130