Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/sād

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 *sēdą, from Proto-Indo-European *seh₁- (“to plant, sow”).

Noun

*sād n[1]

  1. seed
    Synonym: *sādi

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
Singular
Nominative *sād
Genitive *sādas
Singular Plural
Nominative *sād *sādu
Accusative *sād *sādu
Genitive *sādas *sādō
Dative *sādē *sādum
Instrumental *sādu *sādum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old English: sǣd, sēd — Anglian
    • Middle English: seed
      • English: seed
      • Scots: seed, seid, sid
      • Yola: zeade
  • Old Frisian: sēd
  • Old Saxon: sād
    • Middle Low German: sât
      • German Low German: Saad
      • Plautdietsch: Sot
  • Old Dutch: *sād
    • Middle Dutch: sâet
      • Dutch: zaad
      • Limburgish: zaod
      • ⇒ Zealandic: zaedje

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 239: “PWGmc *sād”
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