Reconstruction:Old High German/Ostara
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Old High German
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]from Proto-Germanic *Austrǭ. Compare gialtara, germara
Noun
[edit]*Ôstara f
- name of the goddess Easter
Declension
[edit]Declension of *Ôstara (n-stem feminine)
case | singular | plural |
---|---|---|
nominative | *Ôstara | Ôstarûn |
accusative | *Ôstarûn | Ôstarûn |
genitive | *Ôstarûn | *Ôstarôno |
dative | *Ôstarûn | *Ôstarôm, *Ôstarôn |
References
[edit]- Jacob Grimm, James Steven Stallybrass (translator), Teutonic Mythology. Translated from the fourth Edition with Notes and Appendix, Vol. I 1882 and Vol. IV 1888
- ( Joseph Wright, An Old High German Primer. Second Edition, 1906, p. 167: "ōstarūn, ōstoron, wfm. pl. Easter, Pascha" )
- ( Gerhard Köbler, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch, (6. Auflage), 2014, online, s.v. ōstara* )