Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *andaswarōScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_andaswarō
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Lexikon der indogermanischen VerbenHelmutRixMartinKümmelThomasZehnderReinerLippBrigitteSchirmerWiesbadenReichert2001Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum)ElmarSeeboldSeries PracticaMouton851970How to identify cognates in syntax? Taking Watkins’ legacy one step furtherJóhannaBarðdalThórhallurEythórssonJóhanna BarðdalSpike GildeaEugenio LujánReconstructing syntaxLeidenBrill197–2382020*swer-to resound loudly, swearandswaruanswer(and-)svaranswer
nounfeminineō-stemanswer, reply; a statement made in responseFrom *anda- + *swarō, literally ‘counter-statement; statement in reply’. Barðdal & Eythórsson 2020: 212 argue that the Germanic meaning ‘answer’ preceded ‘swear (an oath)’, the latter developing from ‘answer before a court of justice’. Kroonen 2013: s.v. *swar(j)an- reconstructs the noun as *swaro- but regards the deeper Indo-European etymology of the *swar- family as uncertain. Rix and colleagues 2001: 613 relate it to PIE *swer-, with earlier Germanic ‘speak, sound’. The feminine ō-stem is directly supported by Old English andswaru; Old Norse (and-)svar represents a parallel neuter formation *swarąSeebold 1970: 481.