Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *awadīScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_awadī
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Characteristics of Lexemes of a Substratum Origin in Proto-GermanicAljošaŠorgoRomain GarnierLoanwords and substrata: proceedings of the colloquium held in Limoges, 5th-7th June 2018InnsbruckInstitut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck427-722020An essay on Saami ethnolinguistic prehistoryAnteAikioRiho GrünthalPetri KallioA linguistic map of prehistoric northern EuropeHelsinkiSuomalais-Ugrilainen Seura63–1172012Faroese bird-name origins (IV)W. B.LockwoodFróðskaparrit 22107–1171974आतिwater birdæðreider*h₂éwisbirdhávdaeiderávdđaeider
nounfeminineī/jō-stemeider duck, especially the female eider (Somateria mollissima).Of uncertain, probably non-Indo-European origin. Kroonen 2013: 44 reconstructs a North Germanic root *aw(V)d- and interprets *awadī as a feminine formation beside an unattested masculine form; compare Old Norse æðr and Swedish dialectal åd. Closely associated with Northern Sámi hávda and Lule Sámi ávdđa. North Saami hávda belongs to a group of etymologically obscure Sámi words whose vocalism suggests borrowing from an unknown substrate after the Great Sámi Vowel Shift Aikio 2012: 84. Šorgo 2020: 435 argues that the Germanic and Sámi terms may derive from a third, lost language, although borrowing from one branch into the other is possible; the exclusively northern Germanic distribution may indicate that the word entered Proto-North-Germanic only after the breakup of Proto-Germanic proper. Earlier comparisons with Sanskrit आति and PIE *h₂éwis are phonologically formally unconvincing Kroonen 2013: 44Lockwood 1974: 112–15.