Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/arjaz

Etymology
From. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Adjective

 * 1) distinguished, esteemed

Descendants
The positive form is not attested in any of the daughter languages, but might exist in some personal names, such as the first element in.

The superlative is attested, the meaning and form of which is debated, but generally given as meaning "most distinguished". The nominative plural ending is explained (by Boutkan among others) as  > Northwest Germanic *-ē + *-z, and is the ancestor of Old Norse masculine nominative plural -ir.
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