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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gōd
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gōdaz.
Adjective
*gōd (comparative *batiʀō, superlative *batist)[1]
- good
Inflection
| a-stem | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Singular | Masculine | ||
| Nominative | *gōd | ||
| Genitive | *gōdas | ||
| Singular | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | *gōd | *gōdu | *gōd |
| Accusative | *gōdanā | *gōdā | *gōd |
| Genitive | *gōdas | *gōdeʀā | *gōdas |
| Dative | *gōdumē | *gōdeʀē | *gōdumē |
| Instrumental | *gōdu | *gōdeʀu | *gōdu |
| Plural | Masculine | Feminine | Neuter |
| Nominative | *gōdē | *gōdō | *gōdu |
| Accusative | *gōdā | *gōdā | *gōdu |
| Genitive | *gōdeʀō | *gōdeʀō | *gōdeʀō |
| Dative | *gōdēm, *gōdum | *gōdēm, *gōdum | *gōdēm, *gōdum |
| Instrumental | *gōdēm, *gōdum | *gōdēm, *gōdum | *gōdēm, *gōdum |
Derived terms
- *gōdnassī
- *gōdōn
Related terms
- *gad
- *gadur
- *gōdalīk
- *gōdī
- *gōdijan
Descendants
- Old English: gōd
- Middle English: good, god, gode, goed, gude
- English: good
- Scots: guid
- Yola: gooude, gude, gayde
- Middle English: good, god, gode, goed, gude
- Old Frisian: gōd
- North Frisian:
- Föhr-Amrum: gud
- Saterland Frisian: goud
- West Frisian: goed
- North Frisian:
- Old Saxon: gōd
- Middle Low German: gôt, gût
- German Low German: good
- Dutch Low Saxon: good
- Middle Low German: gôt, gût
- Old Dutch: guot
- Middle Dutch: goet
- Dutch: goed
- Afrikaans: goed
- Javindo: goet
- Jersey Dutch: xût
- Negerhollands: goed, goei, goeie, got, gu, gue, guet
- Skepi Creole Dutch: gut
- Limburgish: good
- Zealandic: goed
- Dutch: goed
- Middle Dutch: goet
- Old High German: guot
- Middle High German: guot
- Alemannic German: guet
- Alsatian: güet (north), güat (south)
- Swabian: guat
- Bavarian: guad, guat
- Cimbrian: guut, guat
- Mòcheno: guat
- Central Franconian: jot, got, gut
- Hunsrik: gud
- Kölsch: joot
- Luxembourgish: gutt
- Transylvanian Saxon: geat, gäd
- East Central German:
- Silesian German: gutt (inflected gud-)
- ⇒ Silesian German: Gudes (as in nischt Gudes, viel Gudes)
- Upper Saxon: gudd
- Vilamovian: güt
- Silesian German: gutt (inflected gud-)
- German: gut
- Yiddish: גוט (gut)
- Alemannic German: guet
- Middle High German: guot
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 119: “*gōd”