Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *ausôScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ausô
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Encyclopedia of Indo-European CultureJames P.MalloryDouglas Q.AdamsFitzroy Dearborn Publishers1997Singulative n-stems in Indo-European10.1111/1467-968X.12058TijmenPronkTransactions of the Philological Society, 1131133327-3482015From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen VIRosemarieLührVandenhoeck & Ruprecht2017Sulla motivazione semantica dei somatonimi lituani di eredità indoeuropeaAdrianoCerriAION-L n.s. 1331–602024Altlitauisches etymologisches Wörterbuch (ALEW), version 2.0WolfgangHockElvira-JuliaBukevičiūtėChristianeSchillerRainerFechtAnna HeleneFeulnerEugenHillDagmar S.WodtkoBerlinHumboldt-Universität zu Berlin2020οὖςearaurisearausi̇̀searունկնearausinsearsawsos-ear*h₂ew-to perceive, see, to be aware of
nounneuteran-stemearFrom the inherited Proto-Indo-European word for ‘ear’, probably an s-stem, though its exact paradigm is uncertain. Proposed reconstructions include *h₂éws-os ~ h₂éws-es- and *h₂éws-s ~ h₂us-és-; an older root noun has also been proposed, but this requires an otherwise unattested neuter type, and a three-grade paradigm *h₂ews- ~ *h₂ows- ~ h₂us- cannot be securely demonstrated Lühr 2017: s.v. ôra. Proto-Germanic remodeled the word as a neuter n-stem *ausan- ~ auzan-, with *s ~ *z reflecting Verner’s Law in an originally mobile paradigm, approximately *áus-un : auz-én-ezLühr 2017: s.v. ôraRinge 2017: 308. The nasal may represent an inherited singulative formation associated with paired body parts Pronk 2015: 331, 340–41, though Lühr alternatively allows a simple n-extension or metanalysis of a locative in -en. The old dual was important in the subsequent remodeling of the word in some branches Cerri 2024: 41Hock et al. 2020: 72–73, s.v. ausìs. Cognate with Ancient Greek οὖς, Latin auris, Old Armenian ունկն, Lithuanian ausi̇̀s, Old Prussian ausins, and Proto-Celtic awsos-Mallory & Adams 1997: s.v. EAR. No secure underlying verbal root can be identified; the older derivation from root *h₂ew- is doubtful Lühr 2017: s.v. ôra.