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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gīd
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gīda- (“greed, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeydʰ-o-, from *gʰeydʰ- (“to yearn for”), see also Lithuanian geisti (“to desire, crave”).[1][2]
Noun
*gīd m[3]
- greed, avarice
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *gīd | |
Genitive | *gīdas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *gīd | *gīdō, *gīdōs |
Accusative | *gīd | *gīdā |
Genitive | *gīdas | *gīdō |
Dative | *gīdē | *gīdum |
Instrumental | *gīdu | *gīdum |
Derived terms
- *gīdisōn
Descendants
- Old High German: gīt
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “gida-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 426-427
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 130: “PWGmc *gīd”