Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/airi

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 This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *airi.

Adverb

*airi (comparative *airi, *airiʀō, superlative *airist(ō))

  1. early
    Synonym: *frō

Descendants

Due to the merger of the base form and comparative, the two were conflated in the descendants.

  • Old English: ǣr
    • Middle English: er
      • English: ere
      • Scots: air
      • Yola: ear
  • Old Frisian: ēr
  • Old Saxon: ēr
    • Middle Low German: êr
  • Old Dutch: ēr
  • Old High German: ēr
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