Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mangārī

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 Latin mangō (“dealer, monger”) +‎ *-ārī.

Noun

*mangārī m

merchant, dealer, monger^[1]
Synonyms: *kaupamann, *kaupō

Inflection

Masculine ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mangārī
Genitive	*mangārijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mangārī	mangārijō, mangārijōs
Accusative	*mangārī	*mangārijā
Genitive	*mangārijas	*mangārijō
Dative	*mangārijē	*mangārijum
Instrumental	*mangāriju	*mangārijum

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: mangere
- Middle English: mongere
  - English: monger
Old Saxon: *mangāri
- Middle Low German: mengäre, menger, manger, mangäre
  - → Old Norse: mangari
    - Old Swedish: mangare
Old Dutch: *mangāri
- Middle Dutch: manghere, menghere
  - Dutch: manger, menger
Old High German: mangāri, mengāri, mangari
- Middle High German: mangäre, mengäre, manger, menger
  - German: Manger

References

^ Miller, D. Gary (2012 June 13) “Early loanwords from Latin and Greek”, in External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 4.5, page 64: “OHG mangâri ‘merchant; dealer’, OE mangere ‘trader; merchant; monger'”.

[1] Miller, D. Gary (2012 June 13) “Early loanwords from Latin and Greek”, in External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 4.5, page 64: “OHG mangâri ‘merchant; dealer’, OE mangere ‘trader; merchant; monger'”.

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mangārī

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