Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bard

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 *bardaz.

*bard m^[1]

1. beard

• Old English: beard
  • Middle English: berd, bard, bærd, beord, burd
    • English: beard
    • Scots: berd, berde, beird
    • Yola: bearde
    • → Anglo-Norman: berd
    • →⇒ Anglo-Norman: barder (verb) (merged with Old French barbier)
• Old Frisian: *bard, berd
  • West Frisian: burd
• Old Saxon: bard
  • Middle Low German: bart
    • German Low German: Baart
    • Westphalian
      • Ravensbergisch-Lippisch: Bårt
      • Vest Recklinghausen: Bart
      • Westmünsterländisch: Baord, Buord, Burd
    • Plautdietsch: Boat
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: barde
    • → Saterland Frisian: Boart
• Old Dutch: *bart
  • Middle Dutch: bāert
    • Dutch: baard
      • Afrikaans: baard
      • Negerhollands: baard
        • → Virgin Islands Creole: bad (archaic)
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: barde
      • → West Frisian: baard
    • Limburgish: baerd
• Old High German: bart
  • Middle High German: bart
    • Alemannic German: Baart
    • Bavarian: Bårt
    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: Baart

      Luxembourgish: Baart

    • East Central German:

      Upper Saxon German:

      Vilamovian: biöet, biöt

    • East Franconian:
    • German: Bart
      • → Norwegian: bart
    • Rhine Franconian: Bat, Bart

      Frankfurterisch: , (older)

      Pennsylvania German: Baart

    • Yiddish: באָרד (bord)