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This Proto-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.
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *þrēaną + *-þuz.[1] Also corresponds to a hypothetical Proto-Indo-European *treh₁tus.
Pronunciation
Noun
*þrēduz m
- thread, twisted fibre
Inflection
Declension of *þrēduz (u-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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*þrēduz
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*þrēdiwiz
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| vocative
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*þrēdu
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*þrēdiwiz
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| accusative
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*þrēdų
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*þrēdunz
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| genitive
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*þrēdauz
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*þrēdiwǫ̂
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| dative
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*þrēdiwi
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*þrēdumaz
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| instrumental
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*þrēdū
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*þrēdumiz
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Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *þrādu
- Old English: þrǣd
- Middle English: thred, threed, threde, þræd, þred, þrede
- Old Frisian: thrēd
- Old Saxon: thrād
- Middle Low German: drât
- German Low German: Drahd
- → Estonian: traat (possibly from German)
- Old Dutch: *thrāt
- Middle Dutch: drâet
- Dutch: draad
- Afrikaans: draad
- → Aukan: dalati
- → Caribbean Javanese: drat
- → Indonesian: drat (“screw thread”)
- → Papiamentu: drat, drachi
- Limburgish: draod
- Old High German: drāt
- Middle High German: drāt
- Cimbrian: draat
- German: Draht
- → Hungarian: drót (“wire”)
- → Polish: drut (“wire, knitting needle”)
- Hunsrik: Droot
- Luxembourgish: Drot
- Vilamovian: dröt
- Yiddish: דראָט (drot)
- → Polish: dratwa (“strong thread”)
- → Slovak: dratva (“strong thread”)
- Old Norse: þráðr
- Icelandic: þráður
- Faroese: tráður
- Norn: tråð
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tråd
- Norwegian Bokmål: tråd
- Elfdalian: tråð
- Old Swedish: þrāþer, thrādher
- Old Danish: thrāth
- Scanian: tráð
- Gutnish: trad
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*þrēdu-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 546