Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *andawurdijąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_andawurdiją
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A Comparative Grammar of the Early Germanic LanguagesRobert D.FulkJohn Benjamins Publishing Company2018Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen SpracheFriedrichKlugeElmarSeeboldWalter de Gruyter1989Germanische Sprachwissenschaft III: WortbildungslehreHansKraheWolfgangMeidWalter de Gruyter1969A Handbook of Germanic EtymologyVladimirOrelBrill2003𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳𐌹answerandwyrdeanswerandwordianswerantwurtianswer
nounneuterja-stemanswer, replyFrom *anda- + *wurdą + *-(i)ją, literally ‘counter-speech, words spoken in return’. The suffix belongs to the neuter ja-stems continuing Proto-Indo-European -yo-, with *-i- from Sievers’ law (Fulk 2018: 150. Kluge 1989: s.v. Antwort compares Gothic 𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳𐌹, Old English andwyrde, Old Saxon andwordi, and Old High German antwurti, noting the sense ‘speech’ in the second member. Krahe and Meid 1969: 44 identify *-ja- as a neuter collective and, more generally, a composition suffix in prefixed nouns. Orel 2003: 475 reconstructs an underlying derivative **wurdiją (‘speech’) from *wurdą.