*beurą

Runic: ᛒᛖᚢᚱᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈbeu̯.rɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

beer

Etymology

Uncertain. Probably from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreuwh₁-ró-m ‘brewing, brewed drink’, a deverbal noun from *bʰrewh₁- ‘to boil, brew’, with Proto-Germanic *beurą arising by dissimilation from earlier **breurą. Less likely is the reconstruction **beuzą, usually derived with PIE *bʰéus-o-m ‘yeast, dregs, ferment’, since both the semantics and the morphological pathway are less straightforward. (Kroonen 2013) makes a strong argument against **beuzą, since the -z- would cause ʀ-umlaut in Old Norse, giving **býr; compare Proto-Germanic *deuzaz > ON dýr (expected outcome with -z-) and *flōraz > ON flórr (expected outcome with -r-).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	beurą	beurō
Acc.	beurą	beurō
Gen.	beuras, biuzis	beurǫ̂
Dat.	beurai	beuramaz
Inst.	beurō	beuramiz
Voc.	beurą	beurō

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Descendants

*beur (Proto-West Germanic)
- bior, bier (Old Dutch)
  - bier (Middle Dutch)
    - bier (Dutch)
    - beer (Limburgish)
*beur (Proto-West Germanic)
- bēor, bīor (Old English)
  - bere, beere (Middle English)
    - beer (English)
    - bere, beir, beer (Scots)
*beur (Proto-West Germanic)
- biār (Old Frisian)
  - Bjoor (Saterland Frisian)
  - bier (West Frisian)
*beur (Proto-West Germanic)
- bior, pior (Old High German)
  - bier (Middle High German)
    - Bier, Biär, Pier (Alemannic German)
    - Bia, Bäia (Bavarian)
    - Bier (German)
    - Bier (Pennsylvania German)
    - ביר (bir) (Yiddish)
*beur (Proto-West Germanic)
- bior, pior (Old High German)
  - bier (Middle High German)
    - Bier, Beer (Central Franconian)
      - Béier (Luxembourgish)
*beur (Proto-West Germanic)
- bior (Old Saxon)
  - bêr (Middle Low German)
    - Beer, Bier (Low German)
    - Bea (Plautdietsch)
bjórr (Old Norse)
- bjór (Faroese)
- bjór (Icelandic)
- bjor (Norwegian)
- bjor, bör (Swedish)

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