Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/furi

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 Pre-Germanic *pr̥h₂-i, from Proto-Indo-European *preh₂-.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɸu.ri/

Preposition

*furi

(+accusative, with allative meaning) for, before

Adverb

*furi

before, forward

Related terms

*furai
*furiz
*furist

Descendants

In most of the daughter languages *furi and *furai had begun to merge in meaning and to varying degrees in form.

Old English: for, fore (in meaning, but having mostly merged with *furai)
- Middle English: for
  - Scots: for
  - English: for
Old Frisian: fori, for
- Saterland Frisian: foar, far
- West Frisian: foar
Old Saxon: furi
- Middle Low German: [Term?]
  - Low German: för
Old Dutch: furi, fure
- Middle Dutch: vuere, vuer
  - Dutch: veur (dialectal)
    - Afrikaans: vir
Old High German: furi
- Middle High German: vür
  - Central Franconian: für, vür (fully merged)
  - East Central German:
    Upper Saxon: for
  - German: für
  - Luxembourgish: fir
  - Yiddish: פֿאַר‎ (far)
Old Norse: fyrir (probably with analogical -ir based on eptir, yfir, undir)
- Faroese: fyri
- Icelandic: fyrir
- Old Swedish: fyri(r), for
  - Swedish: före, för
- Westrobothnian: föri, fyri, firi, firin, fȯr
- Norwegian Nynorsk: føre, for
- Danish: for
Gothic: 𐍆𐌰𐌿𐍂 (faur)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill

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