Ossriandric
garma
noun. wolf
Cognates
- ᴹQ.
harma“wolf, hound” ✧ Ety/ƷARAM; EtyAC/ƷARAMDerivations
- ᴹ√ÑGARAM “*wolf” ✧ Ety/ƷARAM; EtyAC/ƷARAM
Phonetic Developments
Development Stages Sources ᴹ√ƷARAM > garma [ɣaramā] > [garamā] > [garmā] > [garma] ✧ Ety/ƷARAM
A (rejected) noun for “wolf” developed from the (rejected) root ᴹ√ƷARAM (Ety/ÑGARAM), most likely from primitive ✱✶ʒaramā [ɣaramā] given its cognates. It is an example of the Danian syncope, with second unstressed [a] vanishing after the identical vowel. It is also one of the Danian words for which a long final vowel developed into short final [a]. Finally, it provides an example of how [[dan|[ɣ] became [g]]] in Danian.