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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hirdī
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *hirdijaz.
Noun
*hirdī m[1]
- herdsman, herder
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *hirdī | *hirdijō, *hirdijōs |
Accusative | *hirdī | *hirdijā |
Genitive | *hirdijas | *hirdijō |
Dative | *hirdijē | *hirdijum |
Instrumental | *hirdiju | *hirdijum |
Descendants
- Old English: hierde, hirde
- Middle English: herde
- English: herd; herder
- Middle English: herde
- Old Frisian: *herde, *hirde
- East Frisian: höid
- Old Saxon: hirdi, herdi
- Middle Low German: herde, hirde
- Low German: Heier
- Plautdietsch: Hoad
- Middle Low German: herde, hirde
- Old Dutch: *hirdi
- Middle Dutch: herde
- Dutch: herder
- Middle Dutch: herde
- Old High German: hirti, hirt
- Middle High German: hirte, hirt
- German: Hirte, Hirt
- Luxembourgish: Hiert
- Middle High German: hirte, hirt
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 46: “PWGmc *hirdī”