Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *hamarazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_hamaraz
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*h₂éḱmōstoneअश्मन्stoneअश्मरstony
nounmasculinea-stemhammerTraditionally treated as derived from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éḱmō (‘stone’) (compare Sanskrit अश्मन् (aśman, ‘stone’)), from *h₂eḱ- (‘sharp’), via a formation like *h₂eḱmoros (compare Sanskrit अश्मर (aśmará, ‘stony’)). But the phonology is problematic. A metathesis of *h₂ and ḱ like that assumed to underlie Proto-Balto-Slavic *kā́ˀmō may account for the Germanic short vowel, i.e. *ḱh₂moros. Hyllested instead suggests borrowing from Proto-Finnic *hamara (‘butt of an axe, back of a knife’). However, it is not clear that the proposed chronology works out: At the implied time of borrowing (last centuries BC or first centuries AD), Finnic *h may well still have been *š, which would probably be reflected as *s in Germanic.