*airi

Runic: ᚨᛁᚱᛁ Pronunciation: /ˈɑi̯.ri/

adverb

Meanings

early

Etymology

From pre-Germanic *ajiri (with loss of intervocalic *j and contraction to *ai), from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyeri, ultimately from a temporal adverb formed from the locative of an old r/n-stem *h₂éy-r̥ ~ *h₂éy-en. Compare Ancient Greek ἦρι (êri) and Avestan 𐬀𐬌𐬌𐬀𐬭𐬆 (aiiarə) (Dunkel 2014: 258; Kroonen 2013: s.v. *airi-).

Descendants

  • *airi (Proto-West Germanic)
    • ēr (Old Dutch)
      • êer (Middle Dutch)
        • ieër (Limburgish)
  • *airi (Proto-West Germanic)
    • ēr (Old Dutch)
      • êer (Middle Dutch)
        • eer (Dutch)
          • eer (Afrikaans)
  • *airi (Proto-West Germanic)
    • ǣr (Old English)
      • er (Middle English)
        • ere (English)
        • air (Scots)
  • *airi (Proto-West Germanic)
    • ēr (Old Frisian)
      • eer, ädder (Saterland Frisian)
  • *airi (Proto-West Germanic)
    • ēr (Old Frisian)
      • ier (West Frisian)
        • eardat, ear't (West Frisian)
  • *airi (Proto-West Germanic)
    • ēr (Old High German)
      • ēr, ē (Middle High German)
        • eher, ehe, eh (German)
  • *airi (Proto-West Germanic)
    • ēr (Old Saxon)
      • êr (Middle Low German)
        • ehr (Low German)
          • ehrdat, ehrder, ehrtieds (Low German)
  • ár, áðr (Old Norse)
    • áður (Faroese)
    • ár, áður (Icelandic)
    • år (Norwegian Nynorsk)
    • *ar (Old Swedish)
  • ár, áðr (Old Norse)
    • árla (Old Norse)
      • árla (Faroese)
      • árla (Icelandic)
      • årle, årla (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • ár, áðr (Old Norse)
    • árla (Old Norse)
      • årle (Danish)
        • årle (Norwegian Bokmål)
  • ár, áðr (Old Norse)
    • árla (Old Norse)
      • aarla, arla (Old Swedish)
        • arla (Swedish)
  • 𐌰𐌹𐍂 (air) (Gothic)

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