Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/siduz

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.

Uncertain. On the suggestion that the meaning "custom" developed from "band, bond", Kroonen tentatively reconstructs Pre-Germanic *sh₂itús (“bond, rule, tradition”), from Proto-Indo-European *sh₂ey- (“to bind”).^[1]

Another possibility, though implausible because it would require *swid-, lies in derivation from Proto-Indo-European *swedʰ- (“wont, habit, custom”), cognate with Ancient Greek ἦθος (êthos, “character; custom, habit”), Sanskrit स्वधा (svadhā, “wont, custom, pleasure”), Latin suēscō (“grow accustomed, habituate, acclimate, train”), Latin sodālis (“mate, companion, comrade”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈsi.ðuz/

*siduz m

1. custom, habit, practice
2. conduct

• *sidulausaz
• *sidugaz
• *sidusamaz
• *sidōną

• Proto-West Germanic: *sidu
  • Old English: sidu, seodu
    • Middle English: side
  • Old Frisian: side
    • North Frisian: side, sede
    • Saterland Frisian: Sidde
    • West Frisian: sede
  • Old Saxon: sidu
    • Middle Low German: side
  • Old Dutch: sido
    • Middle Dutch: sēde
      • Dutch: zede
        • Afrikaans: sede
  • Old High German: situ
    • Middle High German: site
      • German: Sitte
      • Luxembourgish: Sitt
• Old Norse: siðr
  • Icelandic: siður
  • Faroese: siður
  • Norwegian: sed
  • Jamtish: sið
  • Old Swedish: siþer, sedher
    • Swedish: sed
  • Danish: sæd
• Gothic: 𐍃𐌹𐌳𐌿𐍃 (sidus)