Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bebru

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 *bebruz.

Noun

*bebru m

1. beaver

Inflection

u-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*bebru
Genitive	*bebrō
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*bebru	*bebriwi, *bebrō
Accusative	*bebru	*bebrū
Genitive	*bebrō	*bebriwō
Dative	*bebriwi, *bebrō	*bebrum
Instrumental	*bebru	*bebrum

Descendants

• Old English: befer, beofor, byfor, bebr, bebir, beber, befor, beofer, beuer
  • Middle English: bever, beauver, beever, befer, beofer, beuver, bevere, bevre, bevyr, bevyre, bewer, byvre
    • English: beaver
    • Scots: bever, baiver
    • → Irish: béabhar
• Old Frisian: *bever
  • North Frisian: biiber (or from German?)
  • West Frisian: bever
• Old Saxon: biƀar, biƀor
  • Middle Low German: bēver
    • Low German: Bever
    • Plautdietsch: Bieba (or from German?)
    • → Faroese: bævur
    • → Norwegian:
      • Norwegian Bokmål: bever
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: bever
    • → Old Swedish: bæver
      • Swedish: bäver
    • → Old Danish: biauær
      • Danish: bæver
      • → Icelandic: bifur
    • → Elfdalian: bäver
    • → Gutnish: bävar
• Old Dutch: *bevar
  • Middle Dutch: bēver
    • Dutch: bever
      • Afrikaans: bewer
    • Limburgish: baever
• Old High German: bibar, bibur
  • Middle High German: biber
    • German: Biber
      • → Luxembourgish: Biber
    • Hunsrik: Biver
    • Yiddish: ביבער (biber)
• → Old French: bievre (see there for further descendants)