*kanguraz

Runic: ᚲᚨᚾᚷᚢᚱᚨᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈkɑŋ.ɡu.rɑz/

noun · masculine · a-stem

Meanings

uncertain. Possibilities include: net, plait, web; weaver, spider

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly related to English kink (‘curl, turn, twist’), Icelandic kengur (‘hook’), and if the word is of Indo-European origin, it may be further related to Old Church Slavonic гѫжвица (gǫžvica) (gǫžvica, ‘wicker’) and Czech houžev (‘withy’), all from Proto-Indo-European *gengʰ- (‘twist, turn, plait, weave’). Finnish kankuri (‘weaver’) is probably borrowed from Germanic together with Finnish kangas (‘web’); alternatively, the present word could be borrowed from Finnish.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.kanguraz, kangurąkangurōz, kangurōs, kangurō
Acc.kangurąkanguranz, kangurō
Gen.kanguras, kanguriskangurǫ̂
Dat.kanguraikanguramaz
Inst.kangurōkanguramiz
Voc.kangur, kangurąkangurōz, kangurōs, kangurō

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Descendants

  • *gangel (Old English)
    • gangelwæfre, gangewifre (Old English)
  • *gange (Old English)
    • gangelwæfre, gangewifre (Old English)
  • kanker (Middle High German)
    • Kanker (German)
  • *kǫngur- (Old Norse)
    • kankuri (Finnish)
  • *kǫngur- (Old Norse)
    • kǫngurváfa (Old Norse)
      • könguló, kónguló (Icelandic)
      • kangero (Jamtish)
      • kongro (Norwegian)
      • kangro (Swedish)

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