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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *gīdaz (“greed, desire”), from Proto-Indo-European *gʰeydʰ-o-, from *gʰeydʰ- (“to yearn for”), see also Lithuanian geisti (“to desire, crave”).[1][2]
Noun
*gīd m[3]
- greed, avarice
Inflection
| Masculine a-stem
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Singular
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| Nominative
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*gīd
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| Genitive
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*gīdas
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Singular
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Plural
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| Nominative
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*gīd
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*gīdō, *gīdōs
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| Accusative
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*gīd
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*gīdā
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| Genitive
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*gīdas
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*gīdō
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| Dative
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*gīdē
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*gīdum
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| Instrumental
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*gīdu
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*gīdum
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Derived terms
Descendants
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “gida-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 177
- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “426-427”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 426-427
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 130: “PWGmc *gīd”
