Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/andaswarō

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From *anda- +‎ *swarō.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.dɑ.ˌswɑ.rɔː/

Noun

*andaswarō f

answer, reply

Inflection

Declension of *andaswarō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*andaswarō	*andaswarôz
vocative	*andaswarō	*andaswarôz
accusative	*andaswarǭ	*andaswarōz
genitive	*andaswarōz	*andaswarǫ̂
dative	*andaswarōi	*andaswarōmaz
instrumental	*andaswarō	*andaswarōmiz

Synonyms

*andawurdiją

Derived terms

*andaswarōną

Related terms

*andaswarjaną

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *andaswaru
- Old English: andswaru, andsware
  - Middle English: answere, ansuer, ansuere, answar, answer, and-sware (Early Middle English), anndswere (Ormulum), ansqwere, answore (East Anglia), ansuar, answar, answare, awnswere (Northern), answar, aunsware, onsware, onsquer, onswere, unswere (West Midland)
    - English: answer
    - Middle Scots: answer, ansueir, ansowr
      - Scots: answer
- Old Frisian: ondswer, ondsere, ondser
- Old Saxon: andswar, andswōr, antswōr
Old Norse: andsvar, annsvar
- Icelandic: andsvar, ans
- Faroese: andsvar
- Norwegian: ansvar
- Old Swedish: andsvar
  - Swedish: ansvar
- Danish: ansvar

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*swar(j)an-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 496: “OE and-swaru f.”

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*swar(j)an-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 496: “OE and-swaru f.”

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