Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/berō

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 *berô.

Noun

*berō m

1. bear

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*berō
Genitive	*birini, *beran
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*berō	*beran
Accusative	*beran	*beran
Genitive	*birini, *beran	*beranō
Dative	*birini, *beran	*berum
Instrumental	*birini, *beran	*berum

Descendants

• Old English: bera
  • Middle English: bere, bier, beare, beore, bore
    • English: bear (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: beir
• >? Old English: beorn
  • Middle English: beorn, bern, beryn, biern, byrne, burne, bourne
• Old Frisian: *bera, *bara
  • Saterland Frisian: Boar
  • West Frisian: bear
• Old Saxon: bero
  • Middle Low German: bar, bāre
    • German Low German: Baar, Boor
    • Plautdietsch: Boa
• Old Dutch: *bero
  • Middle Dutch: bēre
    • Dutch: beer
      • Afrikaans: beer
      • → Papiamentu: ber, beer
    • Limburgish: baer
    • West Flemish: beir
    • Zealandic: beêr
• Old High German: bero, pero
  • Middle High German: bër, bere, per
    • Alemannic German: Bärr
    • Cimbrian: per
    • German: Bär
    • Rhine Franconian:
      • Hunsrik: Bäer
      • Luxembourgish: Bier
    • Vilamovian: baor
    • Yiddish: בער (ber)