Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/rādik
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Proto-West Germanic[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Noun[edit]
*rādik f
Inflection[edit]
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Alternative reconstructions[edit]
- *radik
Reconstruction notes[edit]
All descendant languages show long-vowel forms alongside short-vowel forms, so this variation must have existed from the beginning.
Descendants[edit]
- Old English: rǣdiċ, rediċ
- Old Saxon: rādik, redik
- Old Dutch: *rādik, *redik
- Old High German: rātih, retich, (Central German) rādich, redich
- → Proto-Slavic: *redьky (see there for further descendants)
References[edit]
- ^ Miller, D. Gary (2012 June 13) “Early loanwords from Latin and Greek”, in External Influences on English: From its Beginnings to the Renaissance, Oxford University Press, , →ISBN, § 4.5, page 73.