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Proto-West Germanic
Alternative forms
Etymology
Kroonen links *amslā (“blackbird”), which is either from Proto-Indo-European *h₂em(-)s- (“blackbird”) or from a Central European substrate language; if the former, the stem *amaʀ- could reflect the unsuffixed original *h₂ém-ōs ~ *h₂m-és-.
Noun
*amaʀā f
- blackbird
- yellowhammer
Inflection
ōn-stem
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Singular
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Nominative
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*amaʀā
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Genitive
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*amaʀōn
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Singular
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Plural
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Nominative
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*amaʀā
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*amaʀōn
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Accusative
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*amaʀōn
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*amaʀōn
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Genitive
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*amaʀōn
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*amaʀōnō
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Dative
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*amaʀōn
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*amaʀōm, *amaʀum
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Instrumental
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*amaʀōn
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*amaʀōm, *amaʀum
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Descendants
Further reading
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*amazan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 24