Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *asnōScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_asnō
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Etymological Dictionary of Greek (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 10/1)RobertBeekesBrill2010Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 4)RickDerksenBrill2008Etymological Dictionary of the Baltic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 13)RickDerksenBrill2015The Proto-Germanic n-Stems: A Study in Diachronic MorphophonologyGuusKroonenRodopi2011aEtymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Germanische Etymologie: Besprechung von Kroonen 201310.29091/KRATYLOS/2016/1/1SergioNeriKratylos 611–512016assanisautumnesenьautumnὀπώραend of the summer, start of autumn; harvest, fruit*h₂es-to cutasnawage, tax, interest*aznō-work, harvest
nounfeminineō-stemwage, payment; perhaps originally a harvest-share or remuneration for harvest workRelated to *azaniz and the inherited Indo-European harvest season word represented by *h₁ós-r̥ ~ *h₁és-n-; compare Old Saxon asnaKroonen 2013: 46, s.v. *azani-. The exact Proto-Indo-European formation is uncertain. Kroonen earlier reconstructed *aznō- from *h₂es-néh₂-Kroonen 2011a: 48, 301, an analysis compatible with the later proposal of *h₂es- as the source of the harvest family Neri 2016: 38. Compare Old Prussian assanis, Proto-Slavic esenь, and Ancient Greek ὀπώραBeekes 2010: 1094–95, s.v. ὀπώραDerksen 2008: 144, s.v. *̏esenьDerksen 2015: 555–56, s.v. assanis. The semantic development was perhaps ‘harvest, harvest-work/share’ > ‘payment, wage’.