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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Unknown; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gʷredʰ-, compare Ancient Greek βάτραχος (bátrakhos, “frog”), Ionic Greek βρόταχος (brótakhos, “frog”).[1]
Noun
*krodu f
- toad
- Synonyms: *paddā, *ūkā
Declension
ō-stem
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Singular
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Nominative
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*krodu
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Genitive
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*krodā
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Singular
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Plural
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Nominative
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*krodu
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*krodō
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Accusative
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*krodā
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*krodā
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Genitive
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*krodā
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*krodō
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Dative
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*krodē
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*krodōm, *krodum
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Instrumental
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*krodu
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*krodōm, *krodum
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Descendants
Further reading
- Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kröte”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 415
- Guus Kroonen (2013) “*krud(d)ōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 306
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2011) The Proto-Germanic n-stems: A study in diachronic morphophonology, Amsterdam, New York: Rodopi, →ISBN, pages 346-349: “*kredo, *kruttaz 'toad'”