*widuz

Runic: ᚹᛁᛞᚢᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈwi.ðuz/

noun · masculine · u-stem

Meanings

  1. forest
  2. wood
  3. tree

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁widʰ-u-s, and cognate with Proto-Celtic *widus (‘wood, trees’), with both roots likely tracing further to Proto-Indo-European *h₁weydʰh₁- (‘to separate, split, cleave, divide’) (whence Lithuanian vidùs (‘middle, i.e. forested area between two habitations’)), with sense development "set apart, abandoned" > "desolate area like a forest" > "wood".

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.widuzwidiwiz
Acc.widųwidunz
Gen.widauzwidiwǫ̂
Dat.widiwiwidumaz
Inst.widūwidumiz
Voc.widuwidiwiz

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Descendants

  • *widu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *widu (Old Dutch)
      • wēde (Middle Dutch)
        • wede, -wedde, Onstwedde (Dutch)
  • *widu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • widu, wudu, weadu (Old English)
      • wode (Middle English)
        • wood (English)
        • wod, wuid (Scots)
  • *widu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • witu (Old High German)
      • wite (Middle High German)
  • *widu (Proto-West Germanic)
    • widu, wido (Old Saxon)
      • wēde (Middle Low German)
  • *ᚹᛁᛞᚢᛉ (*widuʀ) (Proto-Norse)
    • viðr, vyðr (Old Norse)
  • *ᚹᛁᛞᚢᛉ (*widuʀ) (Proto-Norse)
    • ? (Old Norse)
      • wið (Elfdalian)
      • viður (Faroese)
      • viður (Icelandic)
      • ved, vid (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • *ᚹᛁᛞᚢᛉ (*widuʀ) (Proto-Norse)
    • ? (Old Norse)
      • with (Old Danish)
        • ved (Danish)
          • ved (Norwegian Bokmål)
  • *ᚹᛁᛞᚢᛉ (*widuʀ) (Proto-Norse)
    • ? (Old Norse)
      • viþer, vedher (Old Swedish)
        • ved (Swedish)
  • *viita (Proto-Finnic)
    • viita (Finnish)

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