Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/aiʀu

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 Proto-Germanic *aizō.

Noun

*aiʀu f

honour
Synonym: *tīri
respect, reverence

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*aiʀu
Genitive	*aiʀā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*aiʀu	*aiʀō
Accusative	*aiʀā	*aiʀā
Genitive	*aiʀā	*aiʀō
Dative	*aiʀē	aiʀōm, aiʀum
Instrumental	*aiʀu	aiʀōm, aiʀum

Derived terms

*aiʀulīk

Descendants

Old English: ār, āre
- Middle English: ore, oore, or, ȝore, aore, are, ære (Early Middle English), ar, are (Northern)
Old Frisian: ēre, ēr
- Saterland Frisian: Eere
- West Frisian: eare
Old Saxon: ēra
- Middle Low German: ēre
  - Low German: Ehr, Ehre
  - → Old Norse: æra, eir
    - Danish: ære
    - Icelandic: æra
    - Faroese: æra
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: ære
    - Norwegian Bokmål: ære
    - Swedish: ära
    - Icelandic: eir m or n
    - ⇒ Faroese: eirdómur, eirgingin, eirgrønur, eiring
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: eir n
      - → Norwegian Bokmål: eir n
    - Old Swedish: ēr
      - Swedish: ärg c
    - Danish: ir c
      - Norwegian Bokmål: irr n
Old Dutch: ēra
- Middle Dutch: êre
  - Dutch: eer
    - Afrikaans: eer
    - Negerhollands: eer
  - Limburgish: ieër
Old High German: ēra
- Middle High German: ēre
  - Central Franconian:
    Hunsrik: Eher
    
    Luxembourgish: Éier
  - German: Ehre
  - Rhine Franconian: Ehr, Ihr
  - Vilamovian: ere