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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sād
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *sēdą.
Noun
*sād n[1]
- seed
- Synonym: *sādi
Inflection
| Neuter a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *sād | |
| Genitive | *sādas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *sād | *sādu |
| Accusative | *sād | *sādu |
| Genitive | *sādas | *sādō |
| Dative | *sādē | *sādum |
| Instrumental | *sādu | *sādum |
Related terms
- *sāan
Descendants
- Old English: sǣd, sēd
- Middle English: seed, sede, side
- Scots: sede, seide, seid
- English: seed
- Yola: zeade
- Middle English: seed, sede, side
- Old Frisian: sēd
- Saterland Frisian: Säid
- West Frisian: sied
- Old Saxon: sād
- Middle Low German: sât
- German Low German: Saad
- Plautdietsch: Sot
- Middle Low German: sât
- Old Dutch: *sād
- Middle Dutch: sâet
- Dutch: zaad
- Afrikaans: saad
- Limburgish: zaod
- Dutch: zaad
- Middle Dutch: sâet
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 239: “PWGmc *sād”