Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/widu

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 *widuz.

Noun

*widu m[1]

forest
tree
wood

Inflection

u-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*widu
Genitive	*widō
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*widu	widiwi, widō
Accusative	*widu	*widū
Genitive	*widō	*widiwō
Dative	widiwi, widō	*widum
Instrumental	*widu	*widum

Descendants

Old English: widu, wudu, weadu
- Middle English: wode
  - Scots: wod, wuid
  - English: wood
Old Saxon: widu, wido
- Middle Low German: wēde
Old Dutch: *widu
- Middle Dutch: wēde
  - Dutch: wede, (in placenames) -wedde (e.g. Onstwedde)
Old High German: witu
- Middle High German: wite

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 322: “PWGmc *widu”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 322: “PWGmc *widu”