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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/waiʀd

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 *waizdaz.

Noun

*waiʀd m[1]

  1. plant used for dyeing, woad
  2. dye
    Synonym: *daugu

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *waiʀd
Genitive *waiʀdas
Singular Plural
Nominative *waiʀd *waiʀdō, *waiʀdōs
Accusative *waiʀd *waiʀdā
Genitive *waiʀdas *waiʀdō
Dative *waiʀdē *waiʀdum
Instrumental *waiʀdu *waiʀdum

Alternative reconstructions
  • *waid

Derived terms
  • *waiʀdil
    • →? Medieval Latin: uuisdile, ouisdelem, guisdil
  • *waiʀdīn

Descendants
  • Old English: wād, weard, *weald
  • Old Frisian: wēd
  • Old Saxon: wēd
  • Old Dutch: *wēd, *weid
  • Old High German: weit
    • Middle High German: weit
      • German: Waid
        • → Danish: vajd
        • → Swedish: vejde
    • → Czech: vejt
    • → Russian: ва́йда (vájda)
  • →? Medieval Latin: waisdum, guaisdium, waisda, waida
    • Old French: guesde, gaide, waisde, waide
    • Italian: guado

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Waid”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 774: “wg. *waizda- m.”
  2. “wē̆ld(e, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
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