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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *wiHrós, with pretonic shortening before a resonant. Compare Latin vir, Sanskrit वीर (vīrá), Irish fear, Welsh gŵr and Lithuanian vyras.
Pronunciation
Noun
*weraz m
- man
- Synonyms: *gumô, *mann-
- husband
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *weraz (masculine a-stem)
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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*weraz
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*werōz, *werōs
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vocative
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*wer
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*werōz, *werōs
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accusative
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*werą
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*weranz
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genitive
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*weras, *wiris
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*werǫ̂
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dative
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*wirai
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*weramaz
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instrumental
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*werō
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*weramiz
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Reconstruction notes
Once used alongside *gumô in the sense of “man, husband”, today it has been replaced by *mann- and its descendants in all surviving Germanic languages.
Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN