*nasō

Runic: ᚾᚨᛊᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈnɑ.sɔː/

noun · feminine · ō-stem

Meanings

nose

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *néh₂s (‘nose’). Compare Latin nāsus.

May, in Proto-Germanic, have been a plurale tantum, whose nominative ending *-ō goes back to the Proto-Indo-European thematic nominative dual ending *-oh₁, while the other cases displayed consonant-stem plural endings -ǭ, -miz, -unz. This presupposes a Proto-Germanic consonant stem *nas- (‘nostril’).

Griepentrog prefers to reconstruct, following Rasmussen, the original Proto-Indo-European paradigm as an acrostratic paradigm with rare ablaut a ~ ā: nom. sg. *Hnā́s-s, acc. sg. *Hnā́s-m̥, gen. sg. *Hnás-s (> *Hnás-os), dat. sg. *Hnás-ey, nom. du. *Hnā́s-h₁, nom. pl. *Hnā́s-es, acc. pl. *Hnás-m̥s.

Griepentrog also considers the zero-grade form *nus- instead of **uns- regular, adducing parallels. Forms in *nus- may be additionally analogically influenced by a Proto-Indo-European verb *news- (‘to sniff’).

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	nasō	nasôz
Acc.	nasǭ	nasōz
Gen.	nasōz	nasǫ̂
Dat.	nasōi	nasōmaz
Inst.	nasō	nasōmiz
Voc.	nasō	nasôz

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Descendants

*nasu (Proto-West Germanic)
- nasa (Old Dutch)
  - nase (Middle Dutch)
    - naas, naze (Dutch)
    - naas (Limburgish)
*nasu (Proto-West Germanic)
- nasu, naso (Old English)
  - nase, nasse, nease (Middle English)
*nasu (Proto-West Germanic)
- *nase (Old Frisian)
  - naas (North Frisian)
*nasu (Proto-West Germanic)
- nasa (Old High German)
  - nase (Middle High German)
    - Nosn (Bavarian)
    - Nous (East Franconian)
    - Nase (German)
    - nōs, nōz (Vilamovian)
    - נאָז (noz) (Yiddish)
*nasu (Proto-West Germanic)
- nasa (Old High German)
  - nase (Middle High German)
    - Nase, Naase (Alemannic German)
      - Nas (Swabian)
*nasu (Proto-West Germanic)
- nasa (Old High German)
  - nase (Middle High German)
    - Nas, Noas, Nos (Central Franconian)
      - Naas (Hunsrik)
      - Nues (Luxembourgish)
*nasu (Proto-West Germanic)
- nasa (Old High German)
  - nase (Middle High German)
    - Noos (Rhine Franconian)
      - Naas (Pennsylvania German)
*nasu (Proto-West Germanic)
- *nasa (Old Saxon)
  - nase (Middle Low German)
    - Nase (German Low German)
nǫs (Old Norse)
- nøs (Faroese)
- nos (Gutnish)
- nös (Icelandic)
- (dialectal) nøs, nåss, nåså, næsa, nasa, nasa, nase (Norwegian)
- nese (Norwegian Bokmål)
nǫs (Old Norse)
- nos, nase (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  - nos, nase (Norwegian Bokmål)
nǫs (Old Norse)
- næsæ (Old Danish)
  - næse (Danish)
nǫs (Old Norse)
- nos, næsa (Old Swedish)
  - nos, näsa (Swedish)

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