Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bebruz

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

Alternative forms

*beburaz[1]

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰébʰrus.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbe.βruz/

Noun

*bebruz m

beaver

Inflection

u-stemDeclension of *bebruz (u-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*bebruz	*bibriwiz
vocative	*bebru	*bibriwiz
accusative	*bebrų	*bebrunz
genitive	*bebrauz	*bibriwǫ̂
dative	*bibriwi	*bebrumaz
instrumental	*bebrū	*bebrumiz

Descendants

Old English: beofor
- Middle English: bever, befer, beofer, bevyr, bevere, bevyre, bewer, bevre, byvre, beever, beauver, beuver
  - English: beaver
  - Scots: bever, baiver
  - → Irish: béabhar
Old Frisian: *bever
- North Frisian: biiber (or from German?)
- West Frisian: bever
Old Saxon: biƀar, biƀor
- Middle Low German: bēver
  - Low German: Bever
  - Plautdietsch: Bieba (or from German?)
  - Faroese: bævur
  - Norwegian:
    - Bokmål: bever
    - Nynorsk: bever
  - Old Swedish: bæver
    - Swedish: bäver
  - Old Danish: biauær
    - Danish: bæver
  - Elfdalian: bäver
  - Gutnish: bävar
Frankish: *bebar
- Old Dutch: *bevar
  - Middle Dutch: bēver
    - Dutch: bever
- → Old French: bievre, bevre, bevere, bever (see there for further descendants)
Old High German: bibar, bibur
- Middle High German: biber
  - German: Biber
    - → Luxembourgish: Biber
  - Yiddish: ביבער‎ (biber)
Old Norse: bjórr, bifr
- Icelandic: bjór, bifur
- Norwegian:
  - Nynorsk: bjor
- Old Swedish: biūr
  - Swedish: bjur (obsolete)
- Old Danish: biūr, bifær
  - Danish: byr (obsolete)
- Westrobothnian: bjúr
- Elfdalian: biuor

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*bebura-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 56

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*bebura-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 56