Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *airuzScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_airuz
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Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: WortbildungslehreHansKraheWolfgangMeidWalter de Gruyter1969Two difficult forms on the Tune memorial10.1515/ejss-2022-2011BernardMeesEuropean Journal of Scandinavian Studies522281-2982022a2026-07-29T16:23:07Zhttps://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/ejss-2022-2011/htmlISSN: 2191-9402, 2191-9399A Handbook of Germanic EtymologyVladimirOrelBrill2003Germanic EtymologiesFrancis A.WoodModern Language Notes13(2)81-901898*h₁ey-to goōrōpetition, plead*h₁ey-ru-sgoing, traveling
nounmasculineu-stemmessenger; emissary; herald, especially an itinerant representative; an angel in some reflexesOf uncertain origin. Orel's 2003: s.v. *airaz derivation from *airi leaves both the derivational morphology and the semantic development unexplained. It may continue a substantivized verbal adjective *h₁ey-ru-s, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ey-, with the semantic development ‘traveler’ → ‘emissary, messenger’ Krahe & Meid 1969: 80Wood 1898: 82. Mees 2022a: 288 n. 3 instead connects *airuz with *arundiją and proposes that both were formed from a verbal base ultimately related to Latin ōrō, borrowed through Gaulish *ār-. This interpretation is semantically attractive but remains speculative, since the Gaulish intermediate is unattested and the development of *ār- to the *air- of *airuz would have to be analogical.