Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bikārī

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 bīcārium (“drinking glass”).

Noun

*bikārī m

1. wine vat, jug

Inflection

Masculine ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*bikārī
Genitive	*bikārijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*bikārī	*bikārijō, *bikārijōs
Accusative	*bikārī	*bikārijā
Genitive	*bikārijas	*bikārijō
Dative	*bikārijē	*bikārijum
Instrumental	*bikāriju	*bikārijum

Alternative reconstructions

• *bekārī

Descendants

• Old English: *biker
  • Middle English: biker, byker, bekyr (or borrowed from Old Norse)
    • English: beaker
    • Scots: bicker
• Old Frisian: *biker, *beker
  • Saterland Frisian: Bieker
  • North Frisian: baager
  • West Frisian: beker
• Old Saxon: bikeri, *bekari
  • Middle Low German: bēker
    • → Old Norse: bikarr
      • Icelandic: bikar
      • Faroese: bikar
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: bikar, bekar; (dialectal) bekare
      • Old Swedish: bikare
        • Swedish: bägare
        • → Finnish: pikari
        • → Ingrian: pikkaari
        • → Karelian: pikari
        • → Votic: pikari
      • Danish: bæger
        • Norwegian Bokmål: beger
          • → Norwegian Nynorsk: beger
        • → North Frisian: baager
      • → Middle English: biker, beker (partially from Middle Dutch)
        • English: beaker
        • Scots: bikker, bicker
• Old Dutch: *becari
  • Middle Dutch: bēker
    • Dutch: beker
      • Afrikaans: beker
      • Negerhollands: beeker
      • → Indonesian: beker
      • → Papiamentu: beker
      • → Sranan Tongo: beiker
        • → Caribbean Javanese: bèker
    • → Middle English: beker, biker (partially from Old Norse)
      • English: beaker
      • Scots: bikker, bicker
• Old High German: behhari, pehhari, behhar
  • Middle High German: becher, bechāre, pechāre
    • German: Becher
      • → French: bécher
      • → Italian: becher
    • Luxembourgish: Becher
    • Mòcheno: bikera
    • → Lower Sorbian: bjachaŕ
    • → Upper Sorbian: bjechaŕ
  • → Bulgarian: пахар (pahar)
  • → Hungarian: pohár
    • → Polish: puchar
    • → Romanian: pahar
    • → Slovak: pohár
      • → Czech: pohár
  • → Macedonian: пехар (pehar)
  • → Russian: пахирь (paxirʹ)
  • → Serbo-Croatian: pehar
    • → Albanian: pehar