< Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/weud
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *wi-wdʰ-o-m, an archaic reduplicated noun formation of *wedʰ- (“to wind; bend; entangle; tie”). Note however that this pattern is extremely rare; *bebruz and *hwehwlą are the only securely reconstructed reduplicated nouns in Germanic, but see *gaukaz for another hypothetical example.
(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Noun
*weud n
- weed
Inflection
Neuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *weud | |
Genitive | *weudas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *weud | *weudu |
Accusative | *weud | *weudu |
Genitive | *weudas | *weudō |
Dative | *weudē | *weudum |
Instrumental | *weudu | *weudum |
Related terms
- *weudōn
Descendants
- Old English: wēod
- Middle English: weod, weed
- English: weed
- → Dutch: wiet
- Scots: wed, weed
- English: weed
- Middle English: weod, weed
- Old Frisian: *wiūd
- Saterland Frisian: wiud (obsolete), Jood
- West Frisian: wjûd
- Old Saxon: wiod
- Middle Low German: wêt
- German Low German: Weed
- Low German: woden, woen
- Middle Low German: wêt
- Old Dutch: *wiod, *wiot
- Middle Dutch: wiod, wied, wiet
- Dutch: wied
- Middle Dutch: wiod, wied, wiet
- Old High German: wiota