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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gīd

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 *gīda- (greed, desire), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeydʰ-o-, from *gʰeydʰ- (to yearn for), see also Lithuanian geisti (to desire, crave).[1][2]

Noun

*gīd m[3]

  1. greed, avarice

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *gīd
Genitive *gīdas
Singular Plural
Nominative *gīd *gīdō, *gīdōs
Accusative *gīd *gīdā
Genitive *gīdas *gīdō
Dative *gīdē *gīdum
Instrumental *gīdu *gīdum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old High German: gīt

References

  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “gida-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
  2. Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 426-427
  3. Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 130: “PWGmc *gīd”
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