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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Uncertain; possibly from or related to Proto-Indo-European *wérsēn (“virile man; male animal”), or perhaps from a lost substrate.
Noun
*(w)urzô ~ *ūrziniz m[1]
- grouse
Inflection
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Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *worʀō ~ *ūrzini
- Old Norse: orri
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*urzan-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 561