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Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰébʰrus

 This Proto-Indo-European 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-Indo-European

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Etymology

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    Etymology tree
    Proto-Indo-European *bʰerH-
    Proto-Indo-European *-us
    Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus

    Possibly from *bʰerH- (“brown”) via a reduplicated form *bʰebʰr(H)-, although Ringe (2006:106) doubts that such a word existed.

    Noun

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    *bʰébʰrus m (oblique stem *bʰébʰr-)

    1. beaver

    Inflection

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    Athematic, proterokinetic
    singular
    nominative *bʰébʰrus
    genitive *bʰebʰréws
    singular dual plural
    nominative *bʰébʰrus *bʰébʰruh₁(e) *bʰébʰrewes
    vocative *bʰébʰru *bʰébʰruh₁(e) *bʰébʰrewes
    accusative *bʰébʰrum *bʰébʰruh₁(e) *bʰébʰrums
    genitive *bʰebʰréws *? *bʰebʰréwoHom
    ablative *bʰebʰréws *? *bʰebʰrúmos, *bʰebʰrúbʰos
    dative *bʰebʰréwey *? *bʰebʰrúmos, *bʰebʰrúbʰos
    locative *bʰebʰréw, *bʰebʰréwi *? *bʰebʰrúsu
    instrumental *bʰebʰrúh₁ *? *bʰebʰrúmis, *bʰebʰrúbʰis

    Descendants

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    • Proto-Balto-Slavic: *bébrus (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Celtic: *bebrus[1]
      • Proto-Brythonic:
      • Old Irish: Bibar
      • →? Late Latin: beber (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Germanic: *bebruz (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Indo-Iranian: *bʰábʰruš[2] (see there for further descendants)
    • Proto-Italic: *febros

    References

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    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 (in Russian), volume II, Moscow: Vostochnaya Literatura, page 153
    • Mallory, J. P. with 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
    • Donald A. Ringe, From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (2006), Linguistic history of English, vol. 1, Oxford: Oxford University Press →ISBN
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