Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/miʀdu

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 *mizdō.

Noun

*miʀdu f^[1]

reward

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*miʀdu
Genitive	*miʀdā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*miʀdu	*miʀdō
Accusative	*miʀdā	*miʀdā
Genitive	*miʀdā	*miʀdō
Dative	*miʀdē	miʀdōm, miʀdum
Instrumental	*miʀdu	miʀdōm, miʀdum

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: mēd, meord, ᛗᛖᛞᚢ (medu) — Runic
- Middle English: mede, meede
  - English: meed
  - Scots: med
Old Saxon: mēda
- Middle Low German: mêde
  - Low German: Meed
Old Dutch: mieda
- Middle Dutch: miede
  - Dutch: miede
Old High German: miata
- Middle High German: miete
  - German: Miete
    - → Luxembourgish: Mit
Lombardic: mēta

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84: “PWGmc *mizdu”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 84: “PWGmc *mizdu”

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