Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bair

Etymology
. Perhaps from (compare 🇨🇬). Likely to be related to 🇨🇬 (modern 🇨🇬, which compare for possible cognates), but solid Indo-European cognates outside of West Germanic and Celtic are lacking. The word could have been borrowed from a pre-Indo-European population of the area by Germanic and/or Celtic-speaking populations. Alternatively, it could be cognate with 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬, from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  boar