Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/burstiz

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 earlier *bʰurstís, from Proto-Indo-European *bʰr̥s-tí-s[1], from *bʰers- (“top, point”).

Noun

*burstiz f

bristle

Inflection

i-stemDeclension of *burstiz (i-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*burstiz	*burstīz
vocative	*bursti	*burstīz
accusative	*burstį	*burstinz
genitive	*burstīz	*burstijǫ̂
dative	*burstī	*burstimaz
instrumental	*burstī	*burstimiz

Derived terms

*burstilaz

Descendants

Old English: byrst
- Middle English: brust
- ⇒ Old English: *byrstel
  - Middle English: brustel, bristel
    - English: bristle
Old Frisian: *bōrstel
- West Frisian: boarstel
Old Saxon: *burstil
- Middle Low German: borstel
  - Plautdietsch: Borschtel
Old Dutch: *burst
Old High German: burst, borst
- Middle High German: burst, borst, burste, borste
  - German: Borste, Bürste
  - Luxembourgish: Buuscht
Old Norse: burst
- Icelandic: burst
- Faroese: bust
- Old Swedish: borst
  - Swedish: borst
    - Swedish: borste (perhaps influenced by German)
- Danish: børste
→ Vulgar Latin: *brustia, *bruscia (with *bruskaz, Icelandic brúskur)
- Old French: broche, broisse
  - French: brosse
  - Picard: brouche
  - Walloon: brouche, broushe
  - → Middle English: brusshe
    - English: brush
  - → Galician: brocha
  - → Portuguese: brocha
  - → Spanish: brocha
    - → Catalan: brotxa
    - → Cebuano: brotsa
    - → Tagalog: brotsa
- → Byzantine Greek: βρούτσα (broútsa), βούρτζα (boúrtza), βούρτσα (boúrtsa), βρούτζα (broútza)
  - Greek: βούρτσα (voúrtsa)
  - ⇒ Byzantine Greek: βρουτσίν (broutsín)
    - → Middle Armenian: վրձին (vrjin), վրծին (vrcin), վրցին (vrcʿin)
      - Armenian: վրձին (vrjin)
  - → Albanian: vurcë
  - → Bulgarian: ву̀рца (vùrca)
  - → Ottoman Turkish: فرچه‎‎ (fırça), فورچه‎ (fırça, furça)
    - Turkish: fırça
    - → Arabic: فُرْشَة‎ (furša)
    - → Armenian: ֆռչա (fṙčʿa)
    - → Bulgarian: ву̀рча (vùrča), фу̀рча (fùrča), фурча̀ (furčà), фу̀рца (fùrca)
    - → Persian: فرچه‎ (ferče)

References

De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fastīgō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 203

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[1] De Vaan, Michiel (2008), “fastīgō, -āre”, in Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 7), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 203