Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/karu

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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *karō.

Noun

*karu f^[1]

care, worry

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*karu
Genitive	*karā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*karu	*karō
Accusative	*karā	*karā
Genitive	*karā	*karō
Dative	*karē	karōm, karum
Instrumental	*karu	karōm, karum

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: caru, ċearu
- Middle English: care
  - Scots: care, cair
  - English: care
Old Frisian: kara
Old Saxon: kara
Old Dutch: *cara
- Middle Dutch: cāre
  - Dutch: kaar
Old High German: chara, kara
- Middle High German: kar
  - ⇒ Middle High German: karvrītac (“Good Friday”)
    - Cimbrian: Kalbraitag
    - German: Karfreitag
    - Luxembourgish: Karfreideg
  - ⇒ Cimbrian: kartag

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 218: “*karu”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 218: “*karu”

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