Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ard
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Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *ardiz (“nature, character, inborn quality”)[1]
Noun
[edit]*ard m[2]
Inflection
[edit]Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *ard | |
Genitive | *ardas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *ard | *ardō, *ardōs |
Accusative | *ard | *ardā |
Genitive | *ardas | *ardō |
Dative | *ardē | *ardum |
Instrumental | *ardu | *ardum |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “aard1”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 181: “PWGmc *ard”