Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aimuzjǭ

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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-Germanic

Etymology

From *aimaz +‎ *uzjǭ.

Noun

*aimuzjǭ f [1]

ember, hot ash
pyre

Inflection

ōn-stemDeclension of *aimuzjǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*aimuzjǭ	*aimuzjōniz
vocative	*aimuzjǭ	*aimuzjōniz
accusative	*aimuzjōnų	*aimuzjōnunz
genitive	*aimuzjōniz	*aimuzjōnǫ̂
dative	*aimuzjōni	*aimuzjōmaz
instrumental	*aimuzjōnē	*aimuzjōmiz

Descendants

Old English: ǣmyrġe
- Middle English: eymere
  - Scots: emmer, amer, aumer
  - English: ember
Old Saxon: *ēmuria
- Middle Low German: ēmere
  - Danish: emmer (possibly)
Old High German: eimuria
- Middle High German: eimere, eimer
  - German: Eimer, Ammer (dialectal)
Old Norse: eimyrja
- Icelandic: eimyrja
- Swedish: mörja

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aima-uzjōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 11

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*aima-uzjōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 11