Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/raudō

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

Compare dialectal Swedish rudda (“abomasum”), Proto-Indo-Iranian *Hrawtás (“intestines”) (whence Persian روده (rude, “intestines”), Kamkata-viri řú (“intestines”)).

Noun

*raudō m

1. abomasum
2. omasum

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*raudō
Genitive	*raudini, *raudan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*raudō	*raudan
Accusative	*raudan	*raudan
Genitive	*raudini, *raudan	*raudanō
Dative	*raudini, *raudan	*raudum
Instrumental	*raudini, *raudan	*raudum

Descendants

• Old English: rēada
  • Middle English: rede
    • English: reed, read
    • Scots: reid, reed
• Old Frisian: *rād, *rāda
  • North Frisian: ruad (Föhr-Amrum)
  • West Frisian: rêd
• Old Dutch: *rōdo
  • Middle Dutch: *rôde
    • Dutch: rood, ro, rooi (dialectal)
• Old Saxon: *rōdo
  • Middle Low German: *rôde
    • German Low German: Rode, Roon
      • → Danish: roden (obsolete)
      • → German: Roden (regional)

References

• “reed, n.²”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, September 2009.