Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *arwazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_arwaz_1
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Encyclopedia of Indo-European CultureJames P.MalloryDouglas Q.AdamsFitzroy Dearborn Publishers1997A Sanskrit–English dictionary: Etymologically and philologically arranged with special reference to cognate Indo-European languagesMonierMonier-WilliamsOxford University Press1899A Handbook of Germanic EtymologyVladimirOrelBrill2003अरुस्wound, sore*h₂/₃éru-s ~ *h₂/₃ru-és-wound, scar
nounneuterz-stema scar; the healed mark left by a woundFrom an inherited neuter s-stem, Proto-Indo-European *h₂/₃éru-s ~ *h₂/₃ru-és-. The direct Indo-European cognate is Sanskrit अरुस्Monier-Williams 1899: s.v. अरुस् (árus), whose close formal and semantic agreement with the Germanic noun supports reconstruction of the word despite its limited distribution Kroonen 2013: 37–38, s.v. *arwiz-Mallory & Adams 1997: 650Orel 2003: 25. Proto-Germanic retained the inherited alternation as nominative-accusative *arwaz beside oblique *arwiz; North Germanic generalized the latter stem, while West Germanic remodeled the noun as an n-stem *arwan-/*arwōn- after speakers also reinterpreted an -n from a neighboring word as belonging to the noun itself (e.g., English “newt” from Middle English “an ewte” > “a newte”) Kroonen 2013: 37–38, s.v. *arwiz-.