Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *ferhuzScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_ferhuz_2
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Old Norse -yn (Proto-Germanic -unjō-) and the re-analysis and spread of derivational morphology through semantic association: ON names of ‘Earth’ Fjǫrgyn and Hlóðyn, Celtic place-name Hercynia silua, Vedic theonym Pŕ̥śni- ‘mother of the Maruts’, and PIE root perḱ- ‘colourful, spotted, dark’RiccardoGinevraFrédériqueBivilleDanielPetitDérivation nominale et innovations dans les langues indo-européennes anciennesMOM Éditions61–792021*pérḱ-u-s ~ *pr̥ḱ-éw-searth, land; originally perhaps ‘the dark/spotted/colorful one’
nounmasculineu-stembodylife, being, existencethe worldGinevra 2021 derives this from Proto-Indo-European *pérḱ-u-s ~ *pr̥ḱ-éw-s (‘earth, land; originally perhaps ‘the dark/spotted/colorful one’’), from *perḱ- (‘colored; speckled’) with ‘life/person’ developing from ‘earthly life, earthly being’. He specifically notes that Gothic 𐍆𐌰𐌹𐍂𐍈𐌿𐍃 (fairƕus) in the Gospels means ‘the earthly world’, often in opposition to heaven, and that Old Norse fjǫr and Old English feorh ‘life’ can be understood from ‘earthly life / being on earth’.