Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *alu

Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *alu Scott K. Shay Wardja Press https://protogermanic.org/pgmc_alu

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The English language before England: an epigraphic account Bernard Mees New York, NY London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2023b ISBN: 978-1-032-21418-4 978-1-032-21417-7 A ceramic beaker with runes – the archaeological and linguistic context of the word alu 10.11588/ger.2022.99115 Lisbeth M. Imer Morten Søvsø Germania 100 109–150 2023 Bauprinzipen runischer Formeln: Zur Lexis und Morphosyntax urnordischer Formeln 10.1515/bgsl-2023-0001 Michael Schulte Beiträge zur Geschichte der deutschen Sprache und Literatur 145(1) 1–34 2023 alō to nourish, feed, rear *h₂el- to grow, nourish

formula word a protective or strengthening ritual formula, probably with sense ‘I help, strengthen, give power, protect’ Uncertain. Probably an Early Proto-Norse first-person singular verbal form related to *alaną, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *h₂el-; compare Latin alō Imer & Søvsø 2023: 123–25 Mees 2023b: 187–89 Schulte 2023: 5–14. Imer and Søvsø interpret runic alu as ‘I help, strengthen, give power, protect’, while Schulte more cautiously classifies it as an apotropaic one-word formula of uncertain meaning. Mees likewise favors a semantic development ‘nourish’ > ‘strengthen’ > ‘protect’.