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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰébʰrus

This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

Etymology

Possibly from *bʰerH- (“brown”).

Noun

*bʰébʰrus m (oblique stem *bʰébʰr-)

  1. beaver

Inflection

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Balto-Slavic: *bebrus, *bibrus (< *bʰibʰrus)
    • Latgalian: babrys m, babrīne f
    • Latvian: bebrs, bebris (dialectal)
    • Lithuanian: bẽbras
    • Old Prussian: bebrus
    • Slavic: *bebrъ, *bobrъ (see there for further descendants)
    • Slavic: *bьbrъ (< *bʰibʰrus) (see there for further descendants)
  • Celtic: *bebrus[1]
  • Germanic: *bebruz (see there for further descendants)
  • Indo-Iranian: *bʰábʰruš[2] (see there for further descendants)
  • Italic: *febros

References
  1. Matasović, Ranko (2009), “bebru-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 59
  2. Rastorgujeva, V. S.; Edelʹman, D. I. (2003) Etimologičeskij slovarʹ iranskix jazykov [Etymological Dictionary of Iranian Languages] (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 153
  • Mallory, J. P.; Adams, D. Q. (2006) The Oxford Introduction to Proto-Indo-European and the Proto-Indo-European World (Oxford Linguistics), New York: Oxford University Press, →ISBN
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