Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/peru

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.

Borrowed from Vulgar Latin pira f, Latin pirum n (“pear”).

*peru f

1. pear

• *piru, *perā, *pirā

• Old English: peru, pere
  • Middle English: pere, peere, per, peire, peore, peare
    • English: pear
      • →⇒ Chinese: 啤梨 (pílí)
      • →⇒ Khmer: ផ្លែភា (phlae phiə)
      • → Sotho: pere
      • → Thai: แพร์ (pɛɛ)
      • → Tokelauan: pea
      • → Xhosa: ipere
    • Scots: peer, peir
    • → Scottish Gaelic: peur
• Old Frisian: *pere
  • Saterland Frisian: Pere
  • West Frisian: par
• Old Saxon: *pera
  • Middle Low German: bêre, pêre
    • German Low German:

      North Low German:

      Grafschaftish: Beäre

      Low Prussian, Westphalian (Westmünsterländisch): Peer

      Westphalian:

      Sauerländisch: Biär, Biäre (Sündern, Assinghausen, Elpe, Kirchhundem), Bier (Balve), Beere (Brilon, Wenden), Bäre (Niedersfeld), Biare (Drolshagen, Olpe)

      Westmünsterländisch: Peere

      South Westphalian: Beär (Dortmund)

    • → Old Norse: pera
      • Norwegian: pære
      • Danish: pære
        • → Greenlandic: pære
      • Swedish: päron
        • → Finnish: päärynä
• Old Dutch: *pera
  • Middle Dutch: pēre
    • Dutch: peer
      • Afrikaans: peer
      • Jersey Dutch: pêr
      • → Aukan: peli
      • → Saramaccan: péíli (from the diminutive form)