Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ters

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

Possibly cognate with Old Norse tjasna f (“a ritual nail or stake (for marking battle lists?); a kind of bolt or peg”), if it reflects earlier *tjarsna (< Proto-Germanic *tersnǭ), perhaps from a verbal root found in Norwegian tersa (“to drive, push, hit”).[1] Further origin unknown. Also suggested to be related to *teran (“to tear, tug at”), from Proto-Indo-European *der- (“to split”).[2]

Noun

*ters m

  1. nail, peg
  2. penis

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *ters(a)
Genitive *tersas
Singular Plural
Nominative *ters(a) *tersōs
Accusative *ters(a) *tersā
Genitive *tersas *tersō
Dative *tersē *tersum
Instrumental *tersu *tersum

Descendants

  • Old English: teors
    • Middle English: ters, tars, tarse, tearse, terce
      • English: tarse
      • Scots: tars, ters
  • Old Saxon: *ters
    • Middle Low German: tērs
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: ters
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: ters
  • Old Dutch: *ters
    • Middle Dutch: *ters, teers
      • Dutch: teers, teerts, taarts
  • Old High German: zers
    • Middle High German: zërs

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*tersa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 513-14
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), “4. der-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume I, Bern, München: Francke Verlag
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