Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/aiʀu

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 *aizō.

Noun

*aiʀu f

1. honour

   Synonym: *tīri

2. respect, reverence

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*aiʀu
Genitive	*aiʀā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*aiʀu	*aiʀō
Accusative	*aiʀā	*aiʀā
Genitive	*aiʀā	*aiʀō
Dative	*aiʀē	*aiʀōm, *aiʀum
Instrumental	*aiʀu	*aiʀōm, *aiʀum

Derived terms

• *aiʀulīk

Descendants

• Old English: ār, āre
  • Middle English: ore, oore, or, ȝore, aore, are, ære (Early Middle English), ar, are (Northern)
• Old Frisian: ēre, ēr
  • Saterland Frisian: Eere
  • West Frisian: eare
• Old Saxon: ēra
  • Middle Low German: ēre
    • Low German: Ehr, Ehre
    • → Old Norse: æra, eir
      • Danish: ære
      • Icelandic: æra
      • Faroese: æra
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: ære
      • Norwegian Bokmål: ære
      • Swedish: ära
      • Icelandic: eir m or n
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: eir n
        • → Norwegian Bokmål: eir n
      • Swedish: ärg c
      • Danish: ir c
        • Norwegian Bokmål: irr n
• Old Dutch: ēra
  • Middle Dutch: êre
    • Dutch: eer
      • Afrikaans: eer
      • Negerhollands: eer
    • Limburgish: ieër
• Old High German: ēra
  • Middle High German: ēre
    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Eher

      Luxembourgish: Éier

    • German: Ehre
    • Rhine Franconian: Ehr, Ihr
    • Vilamovian: ere