Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hauʀīgahaidu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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 *hauʀīg (“obedient, serfish”) +‎ *-haidu (“-hood”).

Noun

*hauʀīgahaidu m

obedience
serfdom

Inflection

u-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hauʀīgahaidu
Genitive	*hauʀīgahaidō
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hauʀīgahaidu	hauʀīgahaidiwi, hauʀīgahaidō
Accusative	*hauʀīgahaidu	*hauʀīgahaidū
Genitive	*hauʀīgahaidō	*hauʀīgahaidiwō
Dative	hauʀīgahaidiwi, hauʀīgahaidō	*hauʀīgahaidum
Instrumental	*hauʀīgahaidu	*hauʀīgahaidum

Descendants

Old Saxon: *hōrīghēd
- Middle Low German: hōrichheit, hōrichēt, hōricheit
Old Dutch: *hōrīghēd
- Middle Dutch: horicheit
  - Dutch: horigheid
Old High German: *hōrīgheit
- Middle High German: hœricheit, hœrecheit
  - German: Hörigkeit