Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ansuz

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 Proto-Indo-European *h₂émsus, from *h₂ems- (“to engender, beget”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑn.suz/

Noun

*ansuz m [1]

deity, god
name of the A-rune (ᚨ)

Inflection

u-stemDeclension of *ansuz (u-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*ansuz	*ansiwiz
vocative	*ansu	*ansiwiz
accusative	*ansų	*ansunz
genitive	*ansauz	*ansiwǫ̂
dative	*ansiwi	*ansumaz
instrumental	*ansū	*ansumiz

Descendants

Old English: ōs; ōsbeorn
- Middle English: ōs (in compounds); osbern
  - English: (only in proper nouns) Oscar, Oswald, Osborne, Osgood, etc.
Old Saxon: ās, ōs
Old Frankish: *ans-, *ansi-
- Old Dutch: ans
  - Dutch: Ans- (only in proper nouns)
- → Latin: anses (also possibly via Gothic)
Old High German: *ans, ans-, ansi-
- German: (only in proper nouns) Ansebert, Anselm, Ansfrid, Vihans, Ansgar, etc.
Old Norse: áss, ǫ́ss
- Icelandic: ás
  - → Swedish: as, ås
    - → Finnish: aasa
  - → Danish: as
- Faroese: ásur
- Norwegian: ås
- Swedish: Asgeir
Suevic or Gothic:
- → Galician: (only in proper nouns) Ansemar, Ansemil, Ansemonde, Anxeriz

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ansu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 30

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ansu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 30