Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bebru

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.

From Proto-Germanic *bebruz.

*bebru m^[1]

1. beaver

• Old English: befer, beofor, byfor, bebr, bebir, beber, befor, beofer, beuer
  • Middle English: bever, beauver, beever, befer, beofer, beuver, bevere, bevre, bevyr, bevyre, bewer, byvre
    • English: beaver
    • Scots: bever, baiver
    • → Irish: béabhar
• Old Frisian: *bever
  • North Frisian: biiber (or from German?)
  • West Frisian: bever
• Old Saxon: biƀar, biƀor
  • Middle Low German: bēver
    • Low German: Bever
    • Plautdietsch: Bieba (or from German?)
    • → Faroese: bævur
    • → Norwegian:
      • Norwegian Bokmål: bever
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: bever
    • → Old Swedish: bæver
      • Swedish: bäver
    • → Old Danish: biauær
      • Danish: bæver
      • → Icelandic: bifur
    • → Elfdalian: bäver
    • → Gutnish: bävar
• Old Dutch: *bevar
  • Middle Dutch: bēver
    • Dutch: bever
      • Afrikaans: bewer
    • Limburgish: baever
• Old High German: bibar, bibur
  • Middle High German: biber
    • German: Biber
      • → Luxembourgish: Biber
    • Hunsrik: Biver
    • Yiddish: ביבער (biber)
• → Old French: bievre (see there for further descendants)