Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *asnijazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_asnijaz
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Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: WortbildungslehreHansKraheWolfgangMeidWalter de Gruyter1969A Gothic Etymological DictionaryWinfred P.LehmannBrill1986aA Handbook of Germanic EtymologyVladimirOrelBrill2003From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017There will be ‘blood’: The etymology of Greek ὀπώρα and Proto-Germanic *asani- and the function of the o-grade in Proto-Indo-EuropeanRoland A.PoothFIU Research Comment2018The Semantic Field of Slavery in Old English: Wealh, Esne, ÞrælKatherine L.MillerLeedsThe University of Leeds2014
nounmasculineja-stemhireling, hired or day laborer; probably originally a harvest-worker or seasonal farm laborerFrom the *asn- allomorph of the Germanic ‘harvest’ stem reflected in *azaniz + *-(i)jaz¹, hence pre-Germanic *as-n-iyó-s > *asnijaz, originally ‘one associated with the harvest’ > ‘harvest-worker, hired laborer’ Krahe & Meid 1969: 72Lehmann 1986a: s.v. asneisMiller 2014: 139–41Orel 2003: s.v. *asnjazRinge 2017: 325–26. The suffix continues PIE *-(i)yó-s, originally relational rather than specifically agentive. Compare *asnō, another formation belonging to the same Germanic ‘harvest’ word family Pooth 2018: 1–4. For its deeper PIE etymology and Indo-European cognates, see *azaniz and *asnō.