Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *fergunjąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_fergunją
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nounneuterja-stemmountainProbably from Proto-Indo-European *perkʷ-un-yó-m, from root *perkʷ- (‘oak’). Cognate with Proto-Celtic *Φerkunyā, preserved in Latinized Hercynia silva (‘Hercynian Forest’). The original meaning was likely ‘oak-covered/forested mountain-land’ or ‘wooded upland’, later generalized in Proto-Germanic to ‘mountain’.