Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *AskaburgijąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_askaburgz
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European Prehistory between Celtic and Germanic: The Celto-Germanic Isoglosses Revisited10.1017/9781009261753.018Paulusvan SluisAnders RichardtJørgensenGuusKroonenKristianKristiansenGuusKroonenEskeWillerslevThe Indo-European Puzzle RevisitedCambridge University Press193-24420232026-07-31T23:07:59Zhttps://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781009261753%23CN-bp-13/type/book_partISBN: 978-1-009-26175-3 978-1-009-26174-6 978-1-009-26172-2Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Indogermanisches etymologisches WörterbuchJuliusPokornyFrancke VerlagI1959Die altgermanischen Toponyme sowie die ungermanischen Toponyme Germaniens: Ein Handbuch zu ihrer EtymologieCorinnaScheungraberFriedrich E.GrünzweigViennaFassbaender2014*bʰergʰ-to safeguard, protect; to preserveἈσκιβούργιονAsciburgium fort/settlement on the lower RhineAsciburgiumfort/settlement on the lower Rhinebrig-hill, fortified hill
propnneuterja-stemAsciburgium, a fortress constructed by the Romans on the present-day boundary between Moers and Duisburg.From Germanic *askaz + *burgz + *-(i)ją. The ancient forms Latin Asciburgium and Ancient Greek Ἀσκιβούργιον indicate such a ja-formation Scheungraber & Grünzweig 2014: 78–79. The name is best interpreted ‘(place) at the ash hill/elevation’; ‘ash-fortress’ is possible if *burgz had already developed ‘height’ > ‘fortified height’ > ‘fortification’, but the homonymous Ptolemaic mountain name favors the older topographic sense Scheungraber & Grünzweig 2014: 79–80. The first constituent belongs to *askazKroonen 2013: 38; older scholarship reconstructs Germanic *askiz, which would more directly account for the transmitted Asci-/Aski-Pokorny 1959: 782, s.v. *ōs, ōs-i-s, ō̆s-en-, os-k-. The second constituent *burgz continues an inherited zero-grade formation from Proto-Indo-European root *bʰergʰ-, with close Proto-Celtic brig-; the development toward ‘fortified place, town’ is shared especially by Germanic and Continental Celtic van Sluis et al. 2023: 199, 224.