Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *haisazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_haisaz
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adja-stemhoarseUnknown. The forms in *-r- are difficult to explain; they may be from the addition of *-raz with metathesis (Kroonen, Orel) or conflation with *hairaz (Orel). Kroonen speculatively connects it with Albanian kirrem (‘to become hoarse’), for Proto-Indo-European *keys-, *kis-r-, but adds that the Germanic words may all derive from *hissōną (‘to hiss’), ultimately of onomatopoeic origin. Compare *hwistlōną (‘to whistle’) for a similar (but formally unrelated) onomatopoeic root.