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 *gīdaz (“greed, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeydʰ-o-, from *gʰeydʰ- (“to yearn for”); cognate with Lithuanian gei̇̃sti (“to desire, crave”).^[1]^[2]

Noun

*gīd m^[3]

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

*gīdisōn

Descendants

Old High German: gīt

References

^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*gīda-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “426-427”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 426-427
^ 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”

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*gīda-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177

[2] Pokorny, Julius (1959) “426-427”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 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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