Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *AnulaibazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_anulaibaz
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic LanguagesRobert D.FulkJohn Benjamins Publishing Company2018Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Altnordisches Etymologisches WörterbuchJande VriesBrill1977*-laibazdescendant, heir*anu-ancestor, forefather*anulaibaʀdescendant of the primordial ancestor
propnmasculinea-stema male given nameFrom the archaic personal-name element *anu- + *-laibaz, the latter a masculine name-form related to *laibō. De Vries 1977: 418 reconstructs Proto-Norse *anulaibaʀ and interprets the name as ‘descendant of the primordial ancestor’, with *anu- probably preserving an archaic sacral term for a venerated ancestor. After medial-vowel syncope, *anulaibaz > *anlaibaz; subsequent Proto-Norse loss of n with compensatory lengthening yielded Old Norse Áleifr, whose original -ei- is confirmed by early skaldic rhyme Fulk 2018: 70. The second element belongs with *laibōKroonen 2013: 323, but in masculine personal names had the specialized sense ‘descendant, heir’.