Meripirin

Old High German Etymology Most probably goh māri mēri great, renowned from goh gmw-pro *mērijaz berin birin she-bear cognate with ang biren, nl berin, ultimately from goh gem-pro *birinī, from gem-pro *berô *-inī 1, but in this form indistinguishable from a stem based on goh meri sea or goh *mēri boundary, cognate with odt *mēri. 8th or 9th C. Proper noun goh proper noun goh Bavarian goh female 8th or 9th C. Declension Meripirin i/j Meripirinn The nominative singular of the jō-stems (gmw-pro *-ī) was originally uninflected like the ō-stems; and the accusative form usually took its place. The old nominative singular is preserved in fem. personal names, and in the derivatives ending in gem-pro *-inī and *-unjō. The jō-stems show in the oldest documents instead of -jō the ending -e and retain the j before o, u. From the 9th C. onwards, their inflection entirely coincides with that of the ō-stems, with -a replacing -e.de Altbairische Grammatik, Laut- und Flexionslehre 1907 Göttingen Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht Grammatiken der althochdeutschen Dialekte I. Band. Schatz, Josef, 1871-1950 125-126 https://archive.org/details/altbairischegram00scha/page/125/mode/1up Descendants gmh Merbirn 12th C. References la Monumenta Necrologica Monasterii S. Petri Salisburgensis Liber confraternitatum vetustior (784-11th C.) Sigmund Herzberg-Fränkel Monumenta Germaniae Historica Necrologia Germaniae Tomvs II Dioecesis Salisbvrgensis I: Dioecesis Salisburgensis: Regiones Salisburgensis et Bavarica Berolini Weidmannsche Buchhandlung Apvd Weidmannos 978-3-447-17005-5 164584042 1904 24 59 40 https://www.dmgh.de/mgh_necr_2/index.htm#page/24/mode/1up