Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/arbaiþi

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.

From Proto-Germanic *arbaiþiz, *arbaidiz.

*arbaiþi f

1. hardship

• Old English: earfoþe, earfeþe, earfod
  • Middle English: arveð
• Old Frisian: arbēd
  • Saterland Frisian: Oarbaid
  • West Frisian: arbeid
• Old Saxon: arvēd, arƀed, arvid
  • Middle Low German: arbet, arbeit, arvêd, arveid
    • German Low German: Arbeid, Arbeit
    • → Icelandic: arbeiði, arbeið
    • → Faroese: arbeiði
    • → Norwegian: arbeid
    • → Old Swedish: arbeide, arbeyd, arbede, arbeyte, arbeyt, arbete, ærbete, arbet
      • Swedish: arbete
    • → Danish: arbejde
• Old Dutch: aruith, aruit, arbeit
  • Middle Dutch: arbeit
    • Dutch: arbeid
      • Afrikaans: arbeid
    • Limburgish: arbeid
• Old High German: arbeit, arabeit
  • Middle High German: arebeit, erebeit, arbeit, erbeit
    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: arbat, èrbot (Sette Comuni)

      Mòcheno: òrbet

    • Hunsrik: Aarvet
    • Upper Saxon German: Orbeid
    • German: Arbeit
      • → Japanese: アルバイト (arubaito, “part-time job”), バイト (baito)
      • → Korean: 아르바이트 (areubaiteu)
    • Luxembourgish: Aarbecht
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Hessian: Abeit

      Pennsylvania German: Arewet

    • Yiddish: אַרבעט (arbet)