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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/armōdī

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 *armōdiją. Equivalent to *arm (“alm”) +‎ *-ōdī.[1][2]

Noun

*armōdī n

  1. poverty
    Synonym: *armiþu

Inflection
Neuter ja-stem
Singular
Nominative *armōdī
Genitive *armōdijas
Singular Plural
Nominative *armōdī *armōdiju
Accusative *armōdī *armōdiju
Genitive *armōdijas *armōdijō
Dative *armōdijē *armōdijum
Instrumental *armōdiju *armōdijum

Descendants
  • Old Frisian: *ermmōd
    • ⇒ Old Frisian: ermmōdich
  • Old Saxon: armōdi
    • Middle Low German: armōde, armōde
  • Old Dutch: *armodi
    • Middle Dutch: armode, armoede
      • Dutch: armoede
      • Limburgish: ermood, ermeuj
  • Old High German: armuoti, armmuoti

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “arm”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “arma”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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