Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *audanazScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_audanaz
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An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary OnlineJosephBosworthT.NorthcoteTollerEd ChristSeanOndřejTichýPragueFaculty of Arts, Charles University2014Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013A Handbook of Germanic EtymologyVladimirOrelBrill2003ēadengranted, given, assignedōdangiven as a giftauðinngranted, ordained*h₁ówHdʰr̥udder
adja-stemgranted, given; assigned, allotted, ordainedPast participle of a lost Proto-Germanic verb **audaną (‘to grant’) from the same base as *audaz, preserved only in participial/adjectival reflexes; compare Old English ēaden, Old Saxon ōdan, and Old Norse auðinnKroonen 2013: 41Orel 2003: 28Bosworth & Toller 2014: s.v. eádan. If *audaz belongs with the verbal base underlying Proto-Indo-European *h₁ówHdʰr̥, the semantic development may have been ‘give milk, provide’ > ‘provide, endow’ > ‘grant’; see *audaz.