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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/raþą
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *Hreth₂- (“to roll”).
Noun
*raþą n[1]
- wheel
Inflection
| neuter a-stemDeclension of *raþą (neuter a-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *raþą | *raþō | |
| vocative | *raþą | *raþō | |
| accusative | *raþą | *raþō | |
| genitive | *raþas, *raþis | *raþǫ̂ | |
| dative | *raþai | *raþamaz | |
| instrumental | *raþō | *raþamiz | |
Related terms
- *radaz
- *raduraz, *radulaz
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *raþ
- Old Frisian: reth
- West Frisian: rêd
- Old Saxon: rath
- Middle Low German: rat
- Plautdietsch: Raut
- → Swedish: ratt
- → Finnish: ratti
- → Norwegian Bokmål: ratt
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: ratt
- → Danish: rat
- → Elfdalian: ratt
- Middle Low German: rat
- Old Dutch: *rath
- Middle Dutch: rat, rad
- Dutch: rad
- Limburgish: raad
- Middle Dutch: rat, rad
- Old High German: rad
- Middle High German: rat
- German: Rad
- → Esperanto: rado
- Hunsrik: Raat
- Luxembourgish: Rad
- Yiddish: ראָד (rod)
- German: Rad
- Middle High German: rat
- Old Frisian: reth
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*raþa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 405