Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/beuzą
Appearance
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰews- (“dross, sediment; brewer's yeast”). If so, cognate with Swedish buska (“freshly brewed beer, new beer”), Middle Dutch and Middle Low German bûsen (“to feast, booze, drink heavily”), Middle High German būs (“a swelling”), and indirectly (via bowse, ultimately from Middle Dutch) booze. Non-Germanic cognates may include Albanian mbush (“to fill, stuff”).
Alternatively reconstructed by Kroonen as *beurą, a dissimilation of earlier *breurą, derived from *brewwaną (“to brew”).[1] In a parenthetical side remark, Hyllested speculatively suggests an origin in Oghur *pora (“a grey kvas-like drink”).[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*beuzą n
Inflection
[edit]singular | plural | |
---|---|---|
nominative | *beuzą | *beuzō |
vocative | *beuzą | *beuzō |
accusative | *beuzą | *beuzō |
genitive | *beuzas, *biuzis | *beuzǫ̂ |
dative | *beuzai | *beuzamaz |
instrumental | *beuzō | *beuzamiz |
Alternative reconstructions
[edit]- *beurą
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *beuʀ
- Old Norse: bjórr
References
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- Hyllested, Adam. (2014). Word Exchange at the Gates of Europe: Five Millennia of Language Contact. Københavns Universitet, Det Humanistiske Fakultet. University of Copenhagen. pp.121.
Categories:
- Proto-Germanic terms with unknown etymologies
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from Oghur languages
- Proto-Germanic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Proto-Germanic lemmas
- Proto-Germanic nouns
- Proto-Germanic neuter nouns
- Proto-Germanic a-stem nouns
- gem-pro:Alcoholic beverages
- gem-pro:Liquids