Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/harjabergu

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-Germanic

Etymology

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From *harjaz (“army”) +‎ *bergō (“protection, shelter, defense”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑr.jɑ.ˌber.ɣɔː/

Noun

*harjabergu f

1. an army camp; barracks
2. refuge; shelter

Inflection

neuter u-stemDeclension of *harjabergu (neuter u-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*harjabergu	*harjabergū
vocative	*harjabergu	*harjabergū
accusative	*harjabergu	*harjabergū
genitive	*harjabergauz	*harjabirgiwǫ̂
dative	*harjabirgiwi	*harjabergumaz
instrumental	*harjabergū	*harjabergumiz

Descendants

• Old English: herebeorg
  • Middle English: herberwe
    • English: harbor (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: harbery, harbory, hairbour
• Old Frisian: herberge (in compounds)
• Old Saxon: heriberga
  • Middle Low German: herberge
    • Low German: Harbarge
    • → Old Norse: herbergi
      • Icelandic: herbergi
      • Faroese: herbergi
      • Norwegian: herberge
      • Swedish: härbärge
      • Danish: herberge, herberg
• Frankish: *hariberga, *heriberga; *heribergōn
  • Old Dutch: heribergo, hereberga, heribergi
    • Middle Dutch: herberghe
      • Dutch: herberg
  • → Old French: herberge
    • ⇒ Old French: herbergier, herberger
      • Middle French: hierbegier
        • French: héberger
        • Galician: aberger, abergar
    • ⇒ Old French: herbergeor
      • French: héberguer
      • → Middle English: herbergeour
        • English: harbinger
• Old High German: heriberga
  • Middle High German: herberge
    • Alemannic German: Herbrig
    • German: Herberge
• Gothic: *𐌷𐌰𐍂𐌹𐌱𐌰𐌹𐍂𐌲𐌰 (*haribairga) (unattested, but plausibly the source of umlautless Romance forms with a-)
  • → Medieval Latin: albergum, harbergum, haribergum
    • Old Occitan: arberga, alberga, alberja
      • Occitan: aubergo
      • → Old French: aulberge
        • Middle French: auberge
          • French: auberge
            • → English: auberge
            • → Polish: oberża
      • → Old Galician-Portuguese: albergue
        • Portuguese: albergue
    • Italian: albergo
      • → English: albergo
      • → Neapolitan: albergo
    • Spanish: albergue