Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hūdiz

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

From Proto-Indo-European *kéwHtis (“bedecking, hide, skin”), and cognate with Latin cutis (“skin”). The root is probably further derived from *(s)kewH- (“to cover, hide”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxuː.ðiz/

Noun

*hūdiz f

1. skin, hide

Inflection

Declension of *hūdiz (i-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	*hūdiz	*hūdīz
vocative	*hūdi	*hūdīz
accusative	*hūdį	*hūdinz
genitive	*hūdīz	*hūdijǫ̂
dative	*hūdī	*hūdimaz
instrumental	*hūdī	*hūdimiz

Related terms

• *hūdijaną

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *hūdi
  • Old English: hȳd
    • Middle English: hyde, hyd, hide, hid, hude, huyde, huide (Southern)
      • English: hide
      • Scots: hide, hyde
  • Old Frisian: hūd, hēd, hēde
    • North Frisian: heed
    • Saterland Frisian: Häid
    • West Frisian: hûd
  • Old Saxon: hūd
    • Middle Low German: hūt
      • Low German: Huud, Huut
      • Plautdietsch: Hut
  • Old Dutch: hūt
    • Middle Dutch: huut
      • Dutch: huid
        • Afrikaans: huid
  • Old High German: hūt
    • Middle High German: hūt
      • Alemannic German: Hutt

        Walser: Huut

      • Cimbrian: haut
      • Central Franconian: Hock, Hout (Moselle Franconian), Huut (western Ripuarian), Huck (Kölsch)

        Hunsrik: Haut, haut

      • German: Haut
      • Luxembourgish: Haut
      • Yiddish: הויט (hoyt)
• Old Norse: húð
  • Icelandic: húð
  • Faroese: húð
  • Norwegian: hud
  • Old Swedish: hūþ
    • Swedish: hud
  • Danish: hud
• →? Proto-Finnic: *huudëh (see there for further descendants)