Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ambrī

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.

Uncertain; probably borrowed from Latin amphora (“two-handled pitcher”).

*ambrī m

1. bucket

• Old English: amber, ambor, omber, ombor
  • Middle English: ambre, anbre, almer
• Old Frisian: *amber, *amer, *omber, *ommer
  • Saterland Frisian: Ommer
  • West Frisian: amer
• Old Saxon: embar
  • Middle Low German: emmer, ammer, amer, amber
    • German Low German: Emmer, Ammer
    • Plautdietsch: Ama
    • → Norwegian: amber (old spelling)
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: ambar
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: ambar
    • → Old Swedish: ämbar, ämbare
      • Swedish: ämbar
      • → Finnish: ämpäri
    • → Gutnish: ämbar
• Old Dutch: *embar
  • Middle Dutch: ember, emmer
    • Dutch: emmer
      • Afrikaans: emmer
        • → Fwe: mà-hèmêrè (via Lozi)
        • → Xhosa: i-emele
        • → Yeyi: ìhèmérè
      • Jersey Dutch: äämer
      • → Aukan: embele
      • → Caribbean Javanese: èmbèr
      • → Indonesian: ember
        • → Petjo: ember
        • → Ternate: ember
      • → Papiamentu: èmber, hèmber, èmer, hèmchi, èmchi
    • Limburgish: ömmer
• Old High German: amber, ampri, eimbar, einber, eimmer
  • Middle High German: amper, amber, eimber, eimer
    • German: Eimer, Amper
    • Luxembourgish: Eemer