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Proto-West Germanic
Alternative forms
- *kebr, *kabr, *kefr, *kafr (a-stem)
Etymology
Unknown; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *ǵebʰ- (“to eat, chew”), perhaps related to *kafl (“jaw”).
Noun
*kefrō m
- beetle
Inflection
| Masculine an-stem
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Singular
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| Nominative
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*kefrō
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| Genitive
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*kifrini, *kefran
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*kefrō
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*kefran
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| Accusative
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*kefran
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*kefran
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| Genitive
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*kifrini, *kefran
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*kefranō
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| Dative
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*kifrini, *kefran
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*kefrum
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| Instrumental
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*kifrini, *kefran
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*kefrum
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Alternative reconstructions
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Käfer”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 346: “*kebra-/ōn”
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kebra(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 283: “A form *kafra- or *kabra- must nevertheless be reconstructed on the basis of OE ceafor.”
