Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flādi

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 *flāan (“to rinse, clean”) +‎ *-þi.[1]

Noun

*flādi f

  1. cleanliness, beauty

Inflection

i-stem
Singular
Nominative *flādi
Genitive *flādī
Singular Plural
Nominative *flādi *flādī
Accusative *flādi *flādī
Genitive *flādī *flādijō
Dative *flādī *flādim, *flādijum
Instrumental *flādī *flādim, *flādijum

Derived terms

  • *Aþalaflādi
    • Old English: Æþelflǣd
    • Old High German: Adalvlāt
  • *flādīg
  • *unflādi

Descendants

  • Old English: *flǣd, *flēd f[2] (only attested in given names)
  • Old Saxon: *flād[3] (only attested in given names)
  • Old High German: *flāt
    • Middle High German: vlāt, flāt f (“cleanliness, daintiness, beauty”)
      • German: Flat (archaic)

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Unflat”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 750: “Dieses ist ein t-Abstraktum zu mhd. vlæjen ‘säubern’.”
  2. ^ Köbler, Gerhard (2014) “*-flǣd, *-flēd”, in Altenglisches Wörterbuch‎[1] (in German), 4th edition
  3. ^ Holthausen, Ferdinand (1954) “flād ✝”, in Altsächsisches Wörterbuch‎[2] (in German), Cologne: Böhlau Verlag, page 20
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.