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Proto-Germanic
Alternative reconstructions
Etymology
An e-grade variant of *burdą (“board; edge”). Kroonen prefers to reconstruct the term as *brezdaz, and notes that the loss of the first *-z- in the Old High German form may be via dissimilation in the plural form, *brertira (< *brezd-izō).[1]
Noun
*bredą n
- board, plank, shelf
Inflection
neuter a-stemDeclension of *bredą (neuter a-stem)
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singular
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plural
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nominative
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*bredą
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*bredō
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vocative
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*bredą
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*bredō
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accusative
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*bredą
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*bredō
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genitive
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*bredas, *bridis
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*bredǫ̂
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dative
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*bredai
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*bredamaz
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instrumental
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*bredō
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*bredamiz
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Derived terms
- *bridjaz (“perch-ling, roost-ling”) (possibly)
Descendants
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*brezda-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 77