Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/spōdi

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 *spōdiz, synchronically analyzed as *spōan (“to succeed, prosper”) +‎ *-þi.[1]

Noun

*spōdi f[2]

  1. hurry, rush
  2. success, prosperity

Inflection

i-stem
Singular
Nominative *spōdi
Genitive *spōdī
Singular Plural
Nominative *spōdi *spōdī
Accusative *spōdi *spōdī
Genitive *spōdī *spōdijō
Dative *spōdī *spōdim, *spōdijum
Instrumental *spōdī *spōdim, *spōdijum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old English: spēd, spōed — early Mercian
    • Middle English: sped, spede, speed, speede, spyde (Late Middle English), spied (Gower)
      • English: speed (see there for further descendants)
      • Middle Scots: sped, spede, speid
  • Old Saxon: *spōdi, spōd
  • Old Dutch: *spuod
  • Old High German: spuot
    • Middle High German: spuot (dying out)
      • German: Sput (rare and only under Low German influence)

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*spōdi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 469
  2. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “sputen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 693: “wg. *spōdi”
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