Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/waiʀd
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *waizdaz.
Noun
edit*waiʀd m[1]
Inflection
editMasculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *waiʀd | |
Genitive | *waiʀdas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *waiʀd | *waiʀdō, *waiʀdōs |
Accusative | *waiʀd | *waiʀdā |
Genitive | *waiʀdas | *waiʀdō |
Dative | *waiʀdē | *waiʀdum |
Instrumental | *waiʀdu | *waiʀdum |
Alternative reconstructions
edit- *waid
Derived terms
editDescendants
edit- Old English: wād, weard, *weald
- Old Frisian: wēd
- Old Saxon: wēd
- Old Dutch: *wēd, *weid
- Old High German: weit
- →? Medieval Latin: waisdum, guaisdium, waisda, waida
References
edit- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Waid”, 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 774: “wg. *waizda- m.”
- ^ “wē̆ld(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.