Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/audanaz

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.

• *audinaz (North Germanic)

Past participle to a lost verb *audaną (“to grant”), possibly related to Latin ūber (“fruitfulness”) (though this is more likely identical to the noun ūber (“udder”), from Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówdʰr̥), as well as to Lithuanian áusti (“to weave”). Kroonen believes both the Germanic verb and the Latin word in its abstract meaning to be from a dʰh₁-extension of a Proto-Indo-European root *Hew- (“to weave”), which he believes to be the base of *weh₁y- (“to twist; to weave”), connecting this to the notion of the Moirae and the Norns 'weaving' fates, and thus metaphorically granting blessings.

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑu̯.ðɑ.nɑz/

*audanaz

1. granted, given

• *audaz
• *audagaz

• Proto-West Germanic: *audan
  • Old English: ēaden
  • Old Saxon: ōdan
• Old Norse: auðinn
  • Icelandic: auðið
  • Faroese: eyðin
  • Old Swedish: ø̄dhin
    • Swedish: öde (“fate”)