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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/arbaiþi

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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 *arbaiþiz.

Noun

*arbaiþi f [1]

  1. hardship

Inflection

Stem *arbaidi-

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants

  • Old English: earfoþe, earfeþe
  • Old Frisian: arbēd
  • Old Saxon: arvēd, arvid
  • Old Dutch: aruith, aruit, arbeit
    • Middle Dutch: arbeit
  • Old High German: arbeit, arabeit
    • Middle High German: arebeit, erebeit, arbeit, erbeit
      • Alemannic German: [Term?]
        Swabian: [Term?]
      • Bavarian: [Term?]
        Cimbrian: arbat, èrbot
        Mòcheno: [Term?]
      • Central Franconian: [Term?]
        Hunsrik: Aarvet
        Luxembourgish: Aarbecht
      • East Central German:
        Upper Saxon: Orbeid
      • East Franconian: [Term?]
      • German: Arbeit
      • Rhine Franconian:
        Hessian: Abeit
        Pennsylvania German: Arewet
      • Yiddish: אַרבעט (arbet)

References

  1. Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 171: “PWGmc *arbaiþi”
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