Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/spōdi

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 *spōan (“to succeed, prosper”) +‎ *-þi.

Noun

*spōdi f^[1]

hurry, rush
success, prosperity

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*spōdi
Genitive	*spōdī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*spōdi	*spōdī
Accusative	*spōdi	*spōdī
Genitive	*spōdī	*spōdijō
Dative	*spōdī	spōdim, spōdijum
Instrumental	*spōdī	spōdim, spōdijum

Related terms

*spādī

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: spēd
- Middle English: spede
  - English: speed
    - → Ternate: spit
  - Scots: sped, spede, speid
Old Saxon: *spōdi, spōd
- Middle Low German: spôt, spoet
  - German Low German: Spood
  - Low German: spood
Old Dutch: *spuod
- Middle Dutch: spoet
  - Dutch: spoed
Old High German: spuot
- Middle High German: spuot (dying out)
  - German: Sput (rare and only under Low German influence)

References

^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “sputen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 693: “wg. *spōdi”

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “sputen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 693: “wg. *spōdi”

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