Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *asjǭScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_asjǭ
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Etymological Dictionary of the Hittite Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 5)AlwinKloekhorstBrill2008Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013PIE -eh2 as an “individualizing” suffix and the feminine genderH. CraigMelchertSergioNeriRolandSchuhmannStudies on the collective and feminine in Indo-European from a diachronic and typological perspectiveBrill257–2712014Etymological Dictionary of Latin and the other Italic Languages (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 7)Michielde VaanBrill2008Etymology of some Indo-Iranian cultural terms and the Indo-Iranian substratum theory. I. Indo-Iranian *Hišti- / *Hišta- ‘brick’David B.BuyanerIndo-Iranian Languages 2(1)129–1662026Wetter: Etymologie und Lautgesetz. 2nd revised and expanded ednSergioNeriPerugiaUniversità degli Studi di Perugia2017𒄩𒀸𒊭hearthāreōto be dry, dried up𒄩𒀀𒀸ashes, dust*h₂eh₁s-to be dry, to dry; to burn, to glow; hearth; ashesआसashes, dustāraalter; sanctuary, refuge
nounfeminineōn-stemforge, smithing furnace; hearthsoapstone, especially as used around a hearth or forgeLikely from pre-Germanic *h₂eh₁s-yéh₂, a relational/appurtenance formation in *-ih₂/*-yéh₂ to Proto-Indo-European *h₂eh₁s-. Harðarson’s proposed zero-grade derivation *h₂h₁s-iyéh₂- ‘connected with ashes’ encounters a potential difficulty under Schmidt’s Law Buyaner 2026: 149 n. 34; Neri 2017: 299–300 instead derives the form from full-grade h₂eh₁s-iyéh₂- with laryngeal loss by Wetter’s Law (the printed h₁eh₂s- in the section heading and opening sentence is apparently a transposition error for h₂eh₁s-). Cognate at the root level with Hittite 𒄩𒀀𒀸, Sanskrit आस, Latin āreō, and the related *-eh₂ formations Hittite 𒄩𒀸𒊭 and Latin ārade Vaan 2008: s.vv. āra, āreō, assusKloekhorst 2008: 318–19, 322–23Melchert 2014: 258–59. Alternatively, Kroonen 2013: 38 reconstructs *asjōn- primarily as ‘soapstone’ and regards its connection with *askǭ as uncertain, explaining the fire-related meanings from soapstone’s use around hearths.