Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/rādik

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

Borrowed from Latin rādīx.[1]

Noun

*rādik m

radish

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*rādik
Genitive	*rādikas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*rādik	rādikō, rādikōs
Accusative	*rādik	*rādikā
Genitive	*rādikas	*rādikō
Dative	*rādikē	*rādikum
Instrumental	*rādiku	*rādikum

Alternative reconstructions

*radik

Reconstruction notes

All descendant languages show long-vowel forms alongside short-vowel forms, so this variation must have existed from the beginning.

Descendants

Old English: rǣdiċ, rediċ
- Middle English: radiche, radishe, redich, raddik, radike, redic, radisshe, radische, radik, radysche, radish
  - English: radish, raddish
    - →? Malay: rades
    - → Maori: rātihi
  - Scots: raidish
    - →? Irish: raidis
Old Saxon: rādik, redik
- Middle Low German: râdik, rêdik, rēdik, reddik
  - German Low German: Reddig
  - → Danish: ræddike
  - →? Faroese: redikur
  - →? Lithuanian: ridikas
  - → Norwegian: reddik
  - → Swedish: rättika
    - → Finnish: retikka
Old Dutch: *rādik, *redik
- Middle Dutch: râdic, rēdic
Old High German: rātih, retich, (Central German) rādich, redich
- Middle High German: rætich, retich; rædich, redich
  - Alemannic German: Räätrich
  - Central Franconian: Rädich, Reddich, Redich, Riedich
  - German: Rettich
  - Yiddish: רעטעך (retekh)
→ Proto-Slavic: *redьky (see there for further descendants)

References

Miller, D. Gary (2012 June 13) “Early loanwords from Latin and Greek”, in External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 4.5, page 73.

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[1] Miller, D. Gary (2012 June 13) “Early loanwords from Latin and Greek”, in External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, →DOI, →ISBN, § 4.5, page 73.