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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gīd
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This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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 *gīdaz (“greed, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeydʰ-o-, from *gʰeydʰ- (“to yearn for”), see also Lithuanian geisti (“to desire, crave”).[1][2]
Inflection
| Masculine a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *gīd | |
| Genitive | *gīdas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *gīd | *gīdō, *gīdōs |
| Accusative | *gīd | *gīdā |
| Genitive | *gīdas | *gīdō |
| Dative | *gīdē | *gīdum |
| Instrumental | *gīdu | *gīdum |
Derived terms
Descendants
- Old High German: gīt
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “gida-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) “426-427”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 426-427
- Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 130: “PWGmc *gīd”
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