Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bredą

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

An e-grade variant of *burdą (“board; edge”).

Kroonen prefers to reconstruct the term as a z-stem *brezdaz, noting that the loss of the first *-z- in the Old High German form may be via dissimilation in the plural form (*brertira < *brezd-izō). He claims that Old English bred is from Old Norse, Dutch berd is from *burdą (which at least in Limburg cannot be true), and fails even to mention Old Saxon bred.[1] The predominant plural bretir in Old High German proves nothing, because the latter also has feldir, grebir and others.

Noun

*bredą n

  1. board, plank, shelf

Inflection

Declension of *bredą (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *bredą *bredō
vocative *bredą *bredō
accusative *bredą *bredō
genitive *bredas, *bridis *bredǫ̂
dative *bredai *bredamaz
instrumental *bredō *bredamiz

Alternative reconstructions

Derived terms

  • *bridjaz (“perch-ling, roost-ling”) (possibly)
    • Proto-West Germanic: *bridi

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*brezda-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 77
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