Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/miʀdu

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 *mizdō.

Noun

*miʀdu f[1]

reward

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*miʀdu	*miʀdō
Accusative	*miʀdā	*miʀdā
Genitive	*miʀdā	*miʀdō
Dative	*miʀdē	*miʀdōm
Instrumental	*miʀdu	*miʀdōm

Descendants

Old English: meord, mēd
- Scots: med
- English: meed
Old Saxon: mēda
- Low German: mede
Old Dutch: *miada, *mieda
- Middle Dutch: miede
  - Dutch: miede
Old High German: miata
- Middle High German: miete
  - German: Miete
  - Luxembourgish: Mit

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84: “PWGmc *mizdu”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84: “PWGmc *mizdu”