Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hōrǭ

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 *kéh₂ros (“loved”), from *keh₂-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɔː.rɔ̃ː/

Noun

*hōrǭ f

1. whore, adulteress

Inflection

ōn-stemDeclension of *hōrǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*hōrǭ	*hōrōniz
vocative	*hōrǭ	*hōrōniz
accusative	*hōrōnų	*hōrōnunz
genitive	*hōrōniz	*hōrōnǫ̂
dative	*hōrōni	*hōrōmaz
instrumental	*hōrōnē	*hōrōmiz

Derived terms

• *hōradōmaz
• *hōrijǭ

Related terms

• *hōraz
• *hōrą
• *hōrōną

Descendants

• Old English: hōre
  • Middle English: hore, hoor, hoore, hor, houre, hure
    • English: whore
    • Scots: hure, hoor
    • → Welsh: hŵr
• Old Frisian: *hōre
  • West Frisian: huorre, hoer
• Old Saxon: *hōra
  • Middle Low German: hôre
    • German Low German: Hoor
• Old Dutch: *huora (gehuorda)
  • Middle Dutch: hoere
    • Dutch: hoer
      • Afrikaans: hoer
      • Negerhollands: hoer, hoerer, hurer, hu, huer
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: huur (dated)
      • → Sranan Tongo: huru
    • Limburgish: hoor
• Old High German: huora
  • Middle High German: huore
    • Cimbrian: hurra
    • German: Hure, H*re (censored)
      • → Lower Sorbian: hura
    • Luxembourgish: Houer
    • Pennsylvania German: Hur
    • Yiddish: הור (hur)
• Old Norse: hóra
  • Icelandic: hóra
  • Faroese: hora
  • Norwegian Bokmål: hore
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: hora
  • Old Swedish: hōra
    • Swedish: hora
  • Danish: hore
  • Elfdalian: uora
  • → Estonian: hoor
  • → Finnish: hoora, huora