Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aldrąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aldrą
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European Prehistory between Celtic and Germanic: The Celto-Germanic Isoglosses Revisited10.1017/9781009261753.018Paulusvan SluisAnders RichardtJørgensenGuusKroonenKristianKristiansenGuusKroonenEskeWillerslevThe Indo-European Puzzle RevisitedCambridge University Press193-24420232026-07-31T23:07:59Zhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781009261753%23CN-bp-13/type/book_partISBN: 978-1-009-26175-3 978-1-009-26174-6 978-1-009-26172-2Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 9)RankoMatasovićBrill2009aThe Proto-Indo-European Instrument Noun Suffix and its Variants. Historisk-filosofiske Meddelelser 55Birgit A.OlsenDet Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab1988*-tro-mforms nouns denoting a tool or instrument.altustall, high*h₂el-to grow, nourish*altro-fostercom-altarjoint fosteragemí-altarbad fosteragealereto nourish, supportaltto nourish, raise
nounneutera-stemlife; the course or duration of one's lifelifetime; ageFrom Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-tró-m, an instrumental noun in *-tro-m formed from the root *h₂el-, probably originally referring to that connected with or resulting from growth and subsequently developing the Proto-Germanic meaning ‘life, lifetime; age’. A closely corresponding formation occurs in Proto-Celtic *altro-, preserved in Old Irish com-altar and mí-altarKroonen 2013: s.v. *aldra-Olsen 1988: 8van Sluis et al. 2023: 238. However, the Celtic formation retains the root's ‘nourish, raise’ semantics, whereas the PGmc semantics differ; van Sluis and colleagues therefore regard the Celtic and Germanic nouns as independent parallel formations, not evidence for a specifically Celto-Germanic word. Further Indo-European relatives of the root include Latin alere and Old Irish alt; compare also Latin altus < *h₂el-tó-s, a different derivative of the same root Matasović 2009a: 31van Sluis et al. 2023: 238.