Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *aspōScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_aspō
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Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 4)RickDerksenBrill2008Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Encyclopedia of Indo-European CultureJames P.MalloryDouglas Q.AdamsFitzroy Dearborn Publishers1997Characteristics of Lexemes of a Substratum Origin in Proto-GermanicAljošaŠorgoRomain GarnierLoanwords and substrata: proceedings of the colloquium held in Limoges, 5th-7th June 2018InnsbruckInstitut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck427-722020Proto-Slavic forest tree names: Substratum or Proto-Indo-European origin?10.1515/9783111337920-003RankoMatasovićGuus KroonenSub-Indo-European Europe: Problems, Methods, ResultsBerlin & BostonDe Gruyter Mouton49–642024A history of East Baltic through language contact. Leiden Studies in Indo-European 24AnthonyJakobLeiden & BostonBrill2024Armenian op‘i ‘white poplar, Populus alba L.’ and the development of *ps in ArmenianKrzysztof TomaszWitczakAnnual of Armenian Linguistics 1265–751991haapaaspenapseaspenabseaspenãpušėaspenẽpušėaspen*opsāaspen*ōpsīkāaspenոփիpoplar, aspen
nounfeminineō-stemaspen; Eurasian aspen (Populus tremula)From a northern Eurasian tree-name *aps- ~ *ops- of uncertain origin, often treated as an old Wanderwort or substrate word rather than as a securely inherited Proto-Indo-European lexeme. Proto-Germanic *-sp- apparently reflects metathesis of *-ps-, perhaps encouraged by *askaz. Compare Latvian apse, Old Prussian abse, Lithuanian ãpušė and ẽpušė, and Proto-Slavic *opsā and *ōpsīkā, all denoting the aspen. Finnish haapa and comparable Turkic forms support a wider Eurasian Wanderwort, but neither its ultimate source nor the direction of borrowing can be established with certainty Derksen 2008: 378, s.vv. *osa; *osìna; *esìkaJakob 2024: 219, 278, 289 n. 10Kroonen 2013: 39Matasović 2024: 58Šorgo 2020: 434. Witczak 1991: 65–75 makes a compelling argument that Old Armenian ոփի comes from PIE *ops- (it cannot be derived from the alternative *aps-). Mallory and Adams 1997: 33 make a case for the word being Indo-European if the Armenian and Old Indic forms indeed come from the same root, since this would prove that it is more widespread than just northern Europe. Nevertheless, this cannot disprove the possibility of an early, widespread Wanderwort.