"bʰébʰrus" meaning in Proto-Indo-European

See bʰébʰrus in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

Etymology: Possibly from *bʰerH- (“brown”) via a reduplicated form *bʰebʰr(H)-, although Ringe (2006:106) doubts that such a word existed. Etymology templates: {{etymon|ine-pro|af|*bʰerH->brown|*-us>|id=beaver}} Head templates: {{head|ine-pro|noun|||oblique stem|*bʰébʰr-|f2nolink=1|g=m|g2=|g3=|head=|head2=|head3=|head4=|head5=}} *bʰébʰrus m (oblique stem *bʰébʰr-) Inflection templates: {{ine-decl-noun-mf|bʰébʰru|bʰebʰréw|ac=proterokinetic}} Forms: bʰébʰr- [oblique, stem], no-table-tags [table-tags], bʰébʰrus [nominative, singular], bʰébʰruh₁ [dual, nominative], bʰébʰruh₁e [dual, nominative], bʰébʰrewes [nominative, plural], bʰébʰru [singular, vocative], bʰébʰruh₁ [dual, vocative], bʰébʰruh₁e [dual, vocative], bʰébʰrewes [plural, vocative], bʰébʰrum [accusative, singular], bʰébʰruh₁ [accusative, dual], bʰébʰruh₁e [accusative, dual], bʰébʰrums [accusative, plural], bʰebʰréws [genitive, singular], - [dual, genitive], bʰebʰréwoHom [genitive, plural], bʰebʰréws [ablative, singular], - [ablative, dual], bʰebʰrúmos [ablative, plural], bʰebʰrúbʰos [ablative, plural], bʰebʰréwey [dative, singular], - [dative, dual], bʰebʰrúmos [dative, plural], bʰebʰrúbʰos [dative, plural], bʰebʰréw [locative, singular], bʰebʰréwi [locative, singular], - [dual, locative], bʰebʰrúsu [locative, plural], bʰebʰrúh₁ [instrumental, singular], - [dual, instrumental], bʰebʰrúmis [instrumental, plural], bʰebʰrúbʰis [instrumental, plural]
  1. beaver Tags: masculine, reconstruction
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    {
      "lang": "Proto-Balto-Slavic",
      "lang_code": "ine-bsl-pro",
      "word": "*bébrus"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Old Breton",
              "lang_code": "obt",
              "word": "beuer"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Welsh",
              "lang_code": "cy",
              "word": "befer"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Brythonic",
          "lang_code": "cel-bry-pro"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Old Irish",
          "lang_code": "sga",
          "word": "Bibar"
        },
        {
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            {
              "lang": "Latin",
              "lang_code": "la",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed",
                "uncertain"
              ],
              "word": "Bibracte"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Late Latin",
          "lang_code": "la",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed",
            "uncertain"
          ],
          "word": "beber"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Celtic",
      "lang_code": "cel-pro",
      "word": "*bebrus"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
      "lang_code": "gem-pro",
      "word": "*bebruz"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
      "lang_code": "iir-pro",
      "word": "*bʰábʰruš"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
          "lang": "Latin",
          "lang_code": "la",
          "word": "fiber"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Italic",
      "lang_code": "itc-pro",
      "word": "*febros"
    }
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    {
      "args": {
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        "2": "af",
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        "id": "beaver"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from *bʰerH- (“brown”) via a reduplicated form *bʰebʰr(H)-, although Ringe (2006:106) doubts that such a word existed.",
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        "oblique",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ine-decl-noun-mf",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰrus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁e",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰrewes",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰru",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁e",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰrewes",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰrum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁e",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰrums",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréws",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréwoHom",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréws",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúmos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúbʰos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréwey",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúmos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúbʰos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréw",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréwi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "dual",
        "locative"
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    },
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      "form": "bʰebʰrúsu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúh₁",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúmis",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúbʰis",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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      "args": {
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        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "oblique stem",
        "6": "*bʰébʰr-",
        "f2nolink": "1",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "head2": "",
        "head3": "",
        "head4": "",
        "head5": ""
      },
      "expansion": "*bʰébʰrus m (oblique stem *bʰébʰr-)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bʰébʰru",
        "2": "bʰebʰréw",
        "ac": "proterokinetic"
      },
      "name": "ine-decl-noun-mf"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰébʰrus",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
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          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        },
        {
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Indo-European terms belonging to the root *bʰerH- (brown)",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w"
        }
      ],
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        "beaver"
      ],
      "id": "en-bʰébʰrus-ine-pro-noun-cdokjGBJ",
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        [
          "beaver",
          "beaver"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
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  ],
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}
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      "lang": "Proto-Balto-Slavic",
      "lang_code": "ine-bsl-pro",
      "word": "*bébrus"
    },
    {
      "descendants": [
        {
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              "lang": "Old Breton",
              "lang_code": "obt",
              "word": "beuer"
            },
            {
              "lang": "Welsh",
              "lang_code": "cy",
              "word": "befer"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Proto-Brythonic",
          "lang_code": "cel-bry-pro"
        },
        {
          "lang": "Old Irish",
          "lang_code": "sga",
          "word": "Bibar"
        },
        {
          "descendants": [
            {
              "lang": "Latin",
              "lang_code": "la",
              "raw_tags": [
                "borrowed",
                "uncertain"
              ],
              "word": "Bibracte"
            }
          ],
          "lang": "Late Latin",
          "lang_code": "la",
          "raw_tags": [
            "borrowed",
            "uncertain"
          ],
          "word": "beber"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Celtic",
      "lang_code": "cel-pro",
      "word": "*bebrus"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
      "lang_code": "gem-pro",
      "word": "*bebruz"
    },
    {
      "lang": "Proto-Indo-Iranian",
      "lang_code": "iir-pro",
      "word": "*bʰábʰruš"
    },
    {
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        {
          "lang": "Latin",
          "lang_code": "la",
          "word": "fiber"
        }
      ],
      "lang": "Proto-Italic",
      "lang_code": "itc-pro",
      "word": "*febros"
    }
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        "id": "beaver"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "Possibly from *bʰerH- (“brown”) via a reduplicated form *bʰebʰr(H)-, although Ringe (2006:106) doubts that such a word existed.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰr-",
      "tags": [
        "oblique",
        "stem"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
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        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ine-decl-noun-mf",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰrus",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁e",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "nominative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰrewes",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰru",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁e",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰrewes",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰrum",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰruh₁e",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰébʰrums",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréws",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "genitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréwoHom",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréws",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúmos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúbʰos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "ablative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréwey",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "dual"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúmos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúbʰos",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréw",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰréwi",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "locative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúsu",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "locative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúh₁",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "-",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dual",
        "instrumental"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúmis",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "bʰebʰrúbʰis",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ine-pro",
        "2": "noun",
        "3": "",
        "4": "",
        "5": "oblique stem",
        "6": "*bʰébʰr-",
        "f2nolink": "1",
        "g": "m",
        "g2": "",
        "g3": "",
        "head": "",
        "head2": "",
        "head3": "",
        "head4": "",
        "head5": ""
      },
      "expansion": "*bʰébʰrus m (oblique stem *bʰébʰr-)",
      "name": "head"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "bʰébʰru",
        "2": "bʰebʰréw",
        "ac": "proterokinetic"
      },
      "name": "ine-decl-noun-mf"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Indo-European",
  "lang_code": "ine-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Indo-European/bʰébʰrus",
  "pos": "noun",
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    {
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        "Pages with 1 entry",
        "Pages with entries",
        "Proto-Indo-European entries referencing etymons with invalid IDs",
        "Proto-Indo-European entries with incorrect language header",
        "Proto-Indo-European lemmas",
        "Proto-Indo-European masculine nouns",
        "Proto-Indo-European nouns",
        "Proto-Indo-European proterokinetic root nouns",
        "Proto-Indo-European reduplications",
        "Proto-Indo-European terms belonging to the root *bʰerH- (brown)",
        "ine-pro:Rodents"
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "beaver"
      ],
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        [
          "beaver",
          "beaver"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "masculine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "bʰébʰrus"
}

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