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

Alternative reconstructions

• *brezdaz

Etymology

An e-grade variant of *burdą (“board; edge”). Kroonen prefers to reconstruct the term as *brezdaz, and notes that the loss of the first *-z- in the Old High German form may be via dissimilation in the plural form, *brertira (< *brezd-izō).

Noun

*bredą n

1. board, plank, shelf

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension 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

Derived terms

• *bridjaz (“perch-ling, roost-ling”) (possibly)
  • Proto-West Germanic: *bridi
    • >? Old English: bridd, brid, bird
      • Middle English: brid, bryd, bridde
        • English: bird
        • Scots: byrd, bird

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *bred
  • Old English: bred
    • Middle English: bred, brede
      • English: (dialectal) bred, bread, braid, brade, brad
      • Scots: bred, braid, brad
• Old Frisian: *bred
  • Saterland Frisian: Brääd
  • West Frisian: bret
• Old Saxon: bred
  • Middle Low German: bred, bret
    • German Low German: Bredd, Brett
• Old Dutch: *bred
  • Middle Dutch: bret, bert, bart, bort
    • Dutch: bred, berd
• Old High German: bret
  • Middle High German: bret
    • German: Brett
    • Vilamovian: braot
    • Yiddish: ברעט (bret)
• Old Norse: *bræddi
  • Old Danish: bræd
    • Danish: bred
  • Faroese: breddi
  • Norwegian: bredd
  • Old Swedish: brædder
    • Swedish: brädd