Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gaurā

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

Unknown; possibly:

• from Proto-Indo-European *ǵʰer- (“less, short”), cognate with Old Irish gerr (“short”), Sanskrit ह्रस्व (hrasva, “short”);
• or related to *gauraz (“sad, sorrowful”), cognate with Old Church Slavonic журба (žurba, “grief”), Sanskrit घोर (ghora, “terrible”).

Noun

*gaurā f

1. young child

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*gaurā
Genitive	*gaurōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*gaurā	*gaurōn
Accusative	*gaurōn	*gaurōn
Genitive	*gaurōn	*gaurōnō
Dative	*gaurōn	*gaurōm, *gaurum
Instrumental	*gaurōn	*gaurōm, *gaurum

Related terms

• *gurilā (“young person”)
  • Old English: *gyrele, *gyrle
    • >? Middle English: gerle, girle, gyrle, gurle, geerle, garle
      • English: girl (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: girle (obsolete)
      • Yola: gurl
• *gurrijā (“whore”)
  • Old Saxon: *gurria
    • Middle Low German: gorre, gurre f
      • → Dutch: gorre, gurre f
      • → Norwegian: gorre (dialectal)
      • → Swedish: gårre, gurre (dialectal)

Descendants

• Old Frisian: *gōre
  • North Frisian: gör
• Old Saxon: *gōra
  • Middle Low German: gȫre, gȫr f
    • Low German: Gör n, Göre f
    • German Low German: Göör n
    • → German: Gör n, Göre f [16th century]
    • → Switzerland German: Gorsch