Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *-þrąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_þrą
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The Proto-Indo-European Instrument Noun Suffix and its Variants. Historisk-filosofiske Meddelelser 55Birgit A.OlsenDet Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab1988The noun in Biblical Armenian: origin and word-formation with special emphasis on the Indo-European heritageBirgit AnetteOlsenBerlin New YorkMouton de Gruyter1999ISBN: 978-3-11-016483-1; callNumber: 491.992 5From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English, 2nd edition)DonRingeOxfordOxford University Press2017-τρονforms instrument nouns*-tro-mforms nouns denoting a tool or instrument.-त्रforms adverbs indicating stationary location from nominal stems-trumforms instrument nouns from verbs
suffixnounneutera-stemforms chiefly neuter a-stem nouns denoting an instrument, implement, means, or sometimes a place/product associated with a verbal rootFrom Proto-Indo-European *-tro-m, the neuter thematic form of an instrument-noun suffix. It belongs to the wider PIE instrument-suffix family *-tro-,*-tlo-,*-dʰro-,*-dʰlo-, which Ringe 2017: 74–75 describes as often having e-grade, root-accented bases. Olsen’s treatments of the *-tlom/*-trom family are especially important: she argues that pre-IE *-tlo- was the unmarked variant, while *-tro- arose after roots containing a liquid, while *-dʰlo-/*-dʰro- (or *-tʰlo-/*-tʰro) represented conditioned aspirated variants, especially after consonantal *h₁/*h₂, with later daughter languages often leveling one allomorph or the other Olsen 1988: 43Olsen 1999: 844–45. Cognates include Ancient Greek -τρον, Latin -trum , Gaulish -tron, and Sanskrit -त्र, all forming instrument or abstract nouns.