Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/-haidu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *haiduz.

Suffix

*-haidu m

1. -hood. Forms nouns denoting the condition or quality from nouns and adjectives.

Inflection

u-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*-haidu
Genitive	*-haidō
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*-haidu	*-haidiwi, *-haidō
Accusative	*-haidu	*-haidū
Genitive	*-haidō	*-haidiwō
Dative	*-haidiwi, *-haidō	*-haidum
Instrumental	*-haidu	*-haidum

Derived terms

Proto-West Germanic terms suffixed with *-haidu

Alternative reconstructions

• *-haidi

Reconstruction notes

Rebuilt in Continental West Germanic as a feminine i-stem.

Descendants

• Old English: -hād (m.a-stem)
  • Middle English: -had, -hod, -hed, -hede
    • English: -hood; -head
    • Scots: -heid
• Old Frisian: -hēd (f.i-stem)
  • Saterland Frisian: -haid, -gaid
  • West Frisian: -heid
• Old Saxon: -hēd (f.i-stem; mf.u-stem)
  • Middle Low German: -heit
    • German Low German: -heet, -het

      East Frisian: -heid

      Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommerisch, Paderbornisch: -heit

    • → Danish: -hed
    • → Icelandic: -heit
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: -het
    • → Swedish: -het
• Old Dutch: *-hēd, *-heid (f.i-stem)
  • Middle Dutch: -heit
    • Dutch: -heid
      • Afrikaans: -heid
• Old High German: -heit (f.i-stem)
  • Middle High German: -heit
    • Alemannic German: -heit, -keit
    • German: -heit, -keit
    • Yiddish: ־הייט (-heyt), ־קייט (-keyt)