Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sād

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 *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to plant, sow”).

Noun

*sād n[1]

seed
Synonym: *sādi

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*sād
Genitive	*sādas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*sād	*sādu
Accusative	*sād	*sādu
Genitive	*sādas	*sādō
Dative	*sādē	*sādum
Instrumental	*sādu	*sādum

Derived terms

*sādōn

Related terms

*sāan

Descendants

Old English: sǣd, sēd
- Middle English: seed, ceed, ceede, sed, sede, sedde, seede, seide, seod, seth, seyd, seyde, side, syd, zed; sad, sæd, sæt
  - English: seed
  - Scots: seed, seid, sid
  - Yola: zeade
Old Frisian: sēd
- Saterland Frisian: Säid
- West Frisian: sied
Old Saxon: sād
- Middle Low German: sât
  - German Low German: Saad
  - Plautdietsch: Sot
Old Dutch: *sād
- Middle Dutch: sâet
  - Dutch: zaad
    - Afrikaans: saad
  - Limburgish: zaod
  - ⇒ Zealandic: zaedje

References

Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 239: “PWGmc *sād”

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[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 239: “PWGmc *sād”