Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kaisaraz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Borrowed at an early stage from Latin Caesar.
Pronunciation
Noun
*kaisaraz m
- emperor (of Rome)
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *kaisaraz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *kaisaraz | *kaisarōz, *kaisarōs | |
vocative | *kaisar | *kaisarōz, *kaisarōs | |
accusative | *kaisarą | *kaisaranz | |
genitive | *kaisaras, *kaisaris | *kaisarǫ̂ | |
dative | *kaisarai | *kaisaramaz | |
instrumental | *kaisarō | *kaisaramiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *kaisar
- Old Norse: Kjárr
- Gothic: 𐌺𐌰𐌹𐍃𐌰𐍂 (kaisar)
- → Proto-Slavic: *cěsařь (from an uncertain Germanic language; not directly from Proto-Germanic) (see there for further descendants)
Further reading
- Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 296
- Ringe, Don with Ann Taylor (2014) The Development of Old English: a Linguistic History of English[2], Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136