*wadą

Runic: ᚹᚨᛞᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈwɑ.ðɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

shallow water, ford

From Proto-Indo-European *wadʰom, *wh₂dʰóm, from *weh₂dʰ-. Cognate with Latin vadum (‘ford’).

wæd (Old English)
- wath, wathe, weth (Middle English)
  - wath (English)
  - wath (Scots)
wæþ (Old English)
- wath, wathe, weth (Middle English)
  - wath (English)
  - wath (Scots)
*wed (Old Frisian)
- waad, wâd (West Frisian)
*wad (Old Saxon)
- wat (Middle Low German)
  - Watt (German)
*wad (Frankish)
- wad (Old Dutch)
  - wat (Middle Dutch)
    - wad (Dutch)
*wad (Frankish)
- *uadam (Vulgar Latin)
  - gual (Catalan)
  - guado (Italian)
  - ga, guá (Occitan)
*wad (Frankish)
- *uadam (Vulgar Latin)
  - gué (Old French)
    - gué (Middle French)
      - gué (French)
wat (Old High German)
- *wat, *wate (Middle High German)
  - Wate (German)
vað (Old Norse)
- vad (Danish)
- vað (Faroese)
- vað (Icelandic)
- vad (Norwegian)
vað (Old Norse)
- wath, wathe, weth (Middle English)
  - wath (English)
  - wath (Scots)
vað (Old Norse)
- vaþ (Old Swedish)
  - vad (Swedish)