Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gaidu

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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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *gaidwą.

Noun

*gaidu n^[1]

lack, shortage
want, need

Inflection

Neuter wa-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*gaidu
Genitive	*gaidwas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*gaidu	*gaidu
Accusative	*gaidu	*gaidu
Genitive	*gaidwas	*gaidwō
Dative	*gaidwē	*gaidum
Instrumental	*gaidu	*gaidum

Descendants

Old English: gād, gǣd
- ⇒ Old English: *ǣgǣde
  - Middle English: ægæde, ægede, egede
Old Frisian: gād
Old Saxon: gēdia, gēdea
⇒ Lombardic: *faragaidu, *farageita
- →⇒ Latin: farigaidus
  - ⇒ Old High German: fārigaidus (“without descendants”)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 48: “PWGmc *gaidu, *gaidwa-”

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