Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ard

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 *ardiz (“nature, character, inborn quality”)[1]

Noun

*ard m[2]

  1. native place
    Synonym: *ōþil

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *ard
Genitive *ardas
Singular Plural
Nominative *ard *ardō, *ardōs
Accusative *ard *ardā
Genitive *ardas *ardō
Dative *ardē *ardum
Instrumental *ardu *ardum

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Old English: eard
  • Old Saxon: ard
  • Old High German: art

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “aard1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
  2. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 181: “PWGmc *ard”
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