Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/furi
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
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From Pre-Germanic *pr̥h₂-i, from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.
Pronunciation
Preposition
*furi
Adverb
*furi
- before, forward
Related terms
Descendants
In most of the daughter languages *furi and *furai had begun to merge in meaning and to varying degrees in form.
- Old English: (in meaning, but having mostly merged with *furai) for, fore
- Old Frisian: fori, for
- Old Saxon: furi
- Middle Low German:
- Low German: för
- Middle Low German:
- Old Dutch: furi, fure
- Old High German: furi
- Old Norse: (probably with analogical -ir based on eptir, yfir, undir) fyrir, fyr
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂 (faur)