Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aizōScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aizō
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013The English language before England: an epigraphic accountBernardMeesNew York, NY LondonRoutledge, Taylor & Francis Group2023bISBN: 978-1-032-21418-4 978-1-032-21417-7The Origin of the German Word Ehre ‘Honor‘10.2307/460614GustavMustPMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America764-Part1326-32919612026-07-31T17:29:54Zhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/S0030812900078469/type/journal_articleISSN: 0030-8129, 1938-1530Lexikon der indogermanischen VerbenHelmutRixMartinKümmelThomasZehnderReinerLippBrigitteSchirmerWiesbadenReichert2001*h₂oys-éh₂-respect, reverence, benevolence*h₂eys-to respect, revere*h₂eysd-to revere, honor, praise𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽to have regard for, revere, reverence
nounfeminineō-stemreverence, respect, honorfavor, benevolence, mercy; assistance or protectionPossibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂oys-éh₂-, an o-grade feminine abstract, from an otherwise poorly attested root *h₂eys- and possibly related to the d-extended root *h₂eysd- reflected in Gothic 𐌰𐌹𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽Kroonen 2013: s.v. *aizō-Rix et al. 2001: s.v. *h₂eisd-. Since no secure non-Germanic cognate directly continues *h₂oys-éh₂-, the deeper PIE analysis remains uncertain. The Germanic meanings ‘honor, reverence’, ‘favor, mercy’, ‘help, protection’, and ‘gift, reward’ are developments of a broad sense ‘respectful or benevolent treatment’ Must 1961: 326–28. A possible early inscription of the word in the form of Latin “Alaisiagae” comes from 3rd century CE inscriptions at a shrine in Housesteads in Northumbria, England, presumably built by Frisians. The German philologist Wilhem Scherer (1841–1886) considered the word to be made up of Proto-Germanic **al- (< *allaz, ‘all’) and **ais- < *aizō (‘reverence, respect, honor’) Mees 2023b: 128–36.