Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *hē₂rScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_hē2r
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*ḱéh₁in this way; here, there
adverbhere, in this placeFrom *hiz (‘this’) + *-r (‘locative suffix’). There is compensatory lengthening of the vowel after loss of /z/ before /r/ by rhotacism, but the origin of the e₂-vowel is not known.Dunkel tentatively derives from Proto-Indo-European *ḱéh₁ (‘in this way; here, there’) (as in Lesbian Greek κῆ (kê, ‘there’)) + *-r.