Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/offr

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

Borrowed from Late Latin offrum (“a sacrifice”), or a back-formation from *offrōn (“to offer up, sacrifice”), both from Latin offerō.

Noun

*offr n

sacrifice, offering

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*offr
Genitive	*offras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*offr	*offru
Accusative	*offr	*offru
Genitive	*offras	*offrō
Dative	*offrē	*offrum
Instrumental	*offru	*offrum

Alternative reconstructions

*offer

Descendants

Old Frisian: offer
Old Saxon: offar
- Middle Low German: opper, offer
  - → Old Frisian: opper
  - → Old Norse: offr
    - Faroese: offur
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: offer
    - Norwegian Bokmål: offer
    - Swedish: offer
    - Danish: offer
Old Dutch: *offar
- Middle Dutch: offer
  - Dutch: offer
Old High German: opfar, offar, ophar, opher
- Middle High German: opfer, opher, offer
  - German: Opfer
  - Hunsrik: Opfer

Holthausen, Ferdinand (1954) “offar”, in Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎^[1] (in German), Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, page 56
Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Opfer”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 517