Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dādi

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 *dēdiz.

Noun

*dādi f^[1]

deed

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*dādi
Genitive	*dādī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*dādi	*dādī
Accusative	*dādi	*dādī
Genitive	*dādī	*dādijō
Dative	*dādī	dādim, dādijum
Instrumental	*dādī	dādim, dādijum

Descendants

Old English: dǣd, dēd
- Middle English: dede
  - English: deed
  - Scots: dede, ded, deid
Old Frisian: dēd, dēde
- Saterland Frisian: Däid
- West Frisian: died
Old Saxon: dād
- Middle Low German: dât, dâde
  - German Low German: Daad
  - Low German: Daat, Dad
  - → Saterland Frisian: Doat
Old Dutch: dāt
- Middle Dutch: dâet
  - Dutch: daad
    - Afrikaans: daad
  - Limburgish: daod
Old High German: tāt
- Middle High German: tāt, dāt, tæte
  - German: Tat
  - Luxembourgish: Dot

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 115: “*dādi”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 115: “*dādi”

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