Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/laidō

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.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *loyt-éh₂-, from *leyt- (“to go, go forth, die”) (whence also *līþaną (“to go through”), see there for cognates),^[1] perhaps an extension of the root *ley- (“to be slippery, glide, streak”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈlɑi̯.ðɔː/

Noun

*laidō f

a leading
a way, course, route, direction

Inflection

Declension of *laidō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*laidō	*laidôz
vocative	*laidō	*laidôz
accusative	*laidǭ	*laidōz
genitive	*laidōz	*laidǫ̂
dative	*laidōi	*laidōmaz
instrumental	*laidō	*laidōmiz

Related terms

*laidą/*galaidą
*laidijaną
*līþaną

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *laidu
- Old English: lād
  - Middle English: lad, lode, loode
    - Scots: laid, lade
    - English: lode, load
- Old Frisian: lāde, lēde
- Old Saxon: lēda, leida
  - Middle Low German: leide
    - → Norwegian: leide
    - → Old Swedish: leidh
      - Swedish: lejd
- Old Dutch: *lēda, *leida
  - Middle Dutch: leide
    - Dutch: lei
- Old High German: leita, leida
  - Middle High German: leite
    - German: Leite (“path or slideway”) (Swiss German)
Old Norse: leið
- Icelandic: leið
- Faroese: leið
- Norwegian Nynorsk: leid, lei
- Norwegian Bokmål: lei
- Old Swedish: lēþ
  - Swedish: led
- Danish: led
  - Norwegian Bokmål: led
→ Proto-Finnic: *laidun, *laita (see there for further descendants)
→ Proto-Samic: *lājδō (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*laidjan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 323: “*laidō”

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*laidjan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 323: “*laidō”

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