Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/arbaiþi

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *arbaiþiz.

Noun

*arbaiþi f[1]

hardship

Inflection

Stem *arbaidi-

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

Old English: earfoþe, earfeþe
- Middle English: arveð, earveþ, earveþ, arveþ
Old Frisian: arbēd
- Saterland Frisian: Oarbaid
- West Frisian: arbeid
Old Saxon: arvēd, arvid
- Middle Low German: arbet, arbeit, arvêd, arveid
  - German Low German: Arbeid
  - Low German: Arbeit
  - → Faroese: arbeiði
  - → Icelandic: arbeiði, arbeið
  - → Norwegian: arbeid
  - → Old Swedish: arbeide, arbeyd, arbede, arbeyte, arbeyt, arbete, ærbete, arbet
    - Swedish: arbete
  - → Danish: arbejde
Old Dutch: aruith, aruit, arbeit
- Middle Dutch: arbeit
  - Dutch: arbeid
Old High German: arbeit, arabeit
- Middle High German: arebeit, erebeit, arbeit, erbeit
  - Alemannic German: [Term?]
    Swabian: [Term?]
  - Bavarian: [Term?]
    Cimbrian: arbat, èrbot
    Mòcheno: [Term?]
  - Central Franconian: [Term?]
    Hunsrik: Aarvet
    Luxembourgish: Aarbecht
  - East Central German:
    Upper Saxon: Orbeid
  - East Franconian: [Term?]
  - German: Arbeit
    - → Japanese: アルバイト (arubaito)
    - → Korean: 아르바이트 (areubaiteu)
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Hessian: Abeit
    Pennsylvania German: Arewet
  - Yiddish: אַרבעט‎ (arbet)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171: “PWGmc *arbaiþi”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171: “PWGmc *arbaiþi”