Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/furi
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Pre-Germanic *pr̥h₂-i, from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Preposition[edit]
*furi
Adverb[edit]
*furi
- before, forward
Related terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
In most of the daughter languages *furi and *furai had begun to merge in meaning and to varying degrees in form.
- Proto-West Germanic: *furi
- Old Norse: fyrir (probably with analogical -ir based on eptir, yfir, undir)
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂 (faur)
Further reading[edit]
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN