Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hirdī

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 *hirdijaz.

Noun

*hirdī m^[1]

herdsman, herder

Inflection

Masculine ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*hirdī
Genitive	*hirdijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*hirdī	hirdijō, hirdijōs
Accusative	*hirdī	*hirdijā
Genitive	*hirdijas	*hirdijō
Dative	*hirdijē	*hirdijum
Instrumental	*hirdiju	*hirdijum

Descendants

Old English: hierde, hyrde, hiorde, hirde, heorde
- Middle English: herde
  - English: herd
  - Scots: herd, hird
Old Frisian: *herde, *hirde
- East Frisian: höid
Old Saxon: hirdi, herdi
- Middle Low German: herde, hirde
  - German Low German: Heier
  - Plautdietsch: Hoad
Old Dutch: *hirdi
- Middle Dutch: herde
Old High German: hirti, hirt
- Middle High German: hirte, hirt
  - Cimbrian: hiart
  - German: Hirte, Hirt (both are roughly equally common)
  - Luxembourgish: Hiert

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 46: “PWGmc *hirdī”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 46: “PWGmc *hirdī”

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