Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/firi-
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Proto-Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Proto-Indo-European *per(i) (“through, across”), from *per-.
Pronunciation[edit]
Prefix[edit]
*firi-
- around
- through, across
- expresses intensive or perfective meaning
Derived terms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
Only distinguished completely from other prefixes in Gothic; the other Germanic languages show varying degrees of merging *firi-, *fra- and *furi-.