Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/niudi

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 *niudiz, presumably related to *naudi (“compulsion, necessity”).

Noun

*niudi m^[1]

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*niudi
Genitive	*niudī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*niudi	*niudī
Accusative	*niudi	*niudī
Genitive	*niudī	*niudijō
Dative	*niudī	niudim, niudijum
Instrumental	*niudī	niudim, niudijum

Related terms

*naudi

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: nīed, nȳd, nēd, nēad, nēod
- Middle English: nede
  - English: need
  - Scots: nede
Old Frisian: niōd
Old Saxon: niud
Old Dutch: *niod
- Middle Dutch: niet
Old High German: niot
- Middle High German: niet

References

^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 250: “PWGmc *niudi”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 250: “PWGmc *niudi”

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