Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/staur

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 *stauraz.

Noun

*staur m

1. (Weser-Rhine Germanic) destruction
2. (Weser-Rhine Germanic) disturbance

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*staur
Genitive	*stauras
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*staur	*staurō, *staurōs
Accusative	*staur	*staurā
Genitive	*stauras	*staurō
Dative	*staurē	*staurum
Instrumental	*stauru	*staurum

Derived terms

• *staurijan

Descendants

• Old Dutch: *stōr
  • Middle Dutch: stoor

Further reading

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*staurjan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 476: “*staura-”