Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/airō

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

Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₃eyH- (“pole”).^[1]

Noun

*airō f^[1]

oar

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *airō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*airō	*airôz
vocative	*airō	*airôz
accusative	*airǭ	*airōz
genitive	*airōz	*airǫ̂
dative	*airōi	*airōmaz
instrumental	*airō	*airōmiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *airu
- Old English: ār
  - Middle English: ore, hore, oore, are, aurre (Northern)
    - English: oar
    - Scots: air
Old Norse: ár
- Icelandic: ár
- Faroese: ár
- Norwegian Nynorsk: år
  - Russenorsk: aart
- Norwegian Bokmål: år
- Elfdalian: år
- Old Swedish: ār
  - Swedish: år
- Old Danish: aar
  - Danish: år
→ Proto-Finnic: *airo (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Samic: *ājrō (see there for further descendants)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*airō-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 13

[EDPG-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*airō-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 13

[1]