Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/būrą

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 Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH-ro-, a nominal formation from Proto-Indo-European *bʰuH- (“to grow, be”).^[1]

Noun

*būrą n

room, chamber
dwelling, residence

Inflection

Declension of *būrą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*būrą	*būrō
vocative	*būrą	*būrō
accusative	*būrą	*būrō
genitive	būras, būris	*būrǫ̂
dative	*būrai	*būramaz
instrumental	*būrō	*būramiz

Related terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *būr
- Old English: būr
  - Middle English: bour, boure, bowre, bowur, bur (Early Middle English)
    - English: bower
    - Scots: bour
- Old Frisian: būr (attested in plural būrar (“town, district”, literally “houses”))
  - Saterland Frisian: Búur
- Old Saxon: *būr
  - Middle Low German: bûr
    - → German: -büren (in place names)
    - → Polabian: bör
- Old Dutch: būr
  - Middle Dutch: buur, buer
- → Old French: buiron
  - Middle French: buron
    - French: buron
- → Norman: bur (possibly via Old Norse)
- Old High German: būr, pūr
  - Middle High German: būr
    - German: Bauer (“birdcage”)
Old Norse: búr
- Icelandic: búr
- Faroese: búr
- Old Swedish: būr, ᛒᚢᚱ
  - Swedish: bur c
- Danish: bur
- Elfdalian: baur
- Norwegian Bokmål: bur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bur
- Jamtish: búr
→ Proto-Samic: *puvrē (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*būra-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 84

[kroonen-1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*būra-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 84

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