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Where does “*-ōʀ” come from?
*-ōʀ (Proto-West Germanic) comes from Proto-Germanic -ōz, from Proto-Indo-European -oes.
Ancestry of “*-ōʀ”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-Germanic
-ōz
Forms the
2
Proto-Indo-European
-oes
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Words derived from “*-ōʀ”
-or
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