Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hūʀiju

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From *hūʀijan (“to hire; to pay”) +‎ *-u.

Noun

*hūʀiju f

1. payment, hire
2. interest

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hūʀiju
Genitive	*hūʀijā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hūʀiju	*hūʀijō
Accusative	*hūʀijā	*hūʀijā
Genitive	*hūʀijā	*hūʀijō
Dative	*hūʀijē	*hūʀijōm, *hūʀijum
Instrumental	*hūʀiju	*hūʀijōm, *hūʀijum

Derived terms

• *hūʀijuling

Descendants

• Old English: hȳr
  • Middle English: hire, hyre, hure, here, huyre
    • English: hire
    • Scots: hire
• Old Frisian: hēr, hēre
  • Saterland Frisian: Híere, (Strukelje) Häire
  • West Frisian: hier
  • ⇒ Old Frisian: hūshēre
    • Saterland Frisian: Hushire
  • ⇒ Old Frisian: londhēre
• Old Saxon: hūria, hūra
  • Middle Low German: hüre, huere, hyre, hüer, hür
    • German Low German:

      Altmärkisch: Hü̂r

      Westphalian:

      Ravensbergisch: Huür

      Westmünsterländisch: Höier

    • → German: Heuer
    • → Danish: hyre
    • → Norwegian: hyre
    • → Swedish: hyra
      • →? Estonian: üür
    • → Faroese: hýra
    • →? Estonian: üür
• Old Dutch: *hūra
  • Middle Dutch: hûre
    • Dutch: huur
      • Afrikaans: huur
      • Negerhollands: huur
      • → Papiamentu: hür
      • → Sranan Tongo: yuru (see there for further descendants)
  • ⇒? Old Dutch: forahūra
  • ⇒ Old Dutch: hūrlant
  • ⇒ Old Dutch: hūrware

Further reading

• Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “huren”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎^[1] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: “pgm. *hūrjō-”