*wurdą

Runic: ᚹᚢᚱᛞᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈwur.ðɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

  1. word
  2. speech, saying

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *wr̥dʰh₁om (‘word’).

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.wurdąwurdō
Acc.wurdąwurdō
Gen.wurdas, wurdiswurdǫ̂
Dat.wurdaiwurdamaz
Inst.wurdōwurdamiz
Voc.wurdąwurdō

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Descendants

  • *word (Proto-West Germanic)
    • wort (Old Dutch)
      • wort (Middle Dutch)
        • woord (Dutch)
        • waord, waordj (Limburgish)
  • *word (Proto-West Germanic)
    • word (Old English)
      • word, wurd, weord (Middle English)
        • word (English)
        • wird, wourd (Scots)
  • *word (Proto-West Germanic)
    • word, werd, wird (Old Frisian)
      • ? (North Frisian)
      • Woud, Wud (Saterland Frisian)
      • wurd (West Frisian)
  • *word (Proto-West Germanic)
    • wort (Old High German)
      • wort (Middle High German)
        • ? (Alemannic German)
        • Wort, Wurt (Bavarian)
        • Woot, Wort (Central Franconian)
        • Wort (German)
        • Wuert (Luxembourgish)
        • wiüt (Vilamovian)
        • וואָרט (vort) (Yiddish)
  • *word (Proto-West Germanic)
    • word (Old Saxon)
      • wort (Middle Low German)
        • Word, Woort (Low German)
          • Woord (German Low German)
  • orð (Old Norse)
    • uord (Elfdalian)
    • orð (Faroese)
    • orð (Icelandic)
    • ord (Norwegian Bokmål)
    • ord (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  • orð (Old Norse)
    • orth (Old Danish)
      • ord (Danish)
      • orð (Scanian)
  • orð (Old Norse)
    • orþ (Old Gutnish)
      • ård (Gutnish)
  • orð (Old Norse)
    • orþ, ordh (Old Swedish)
      • ord (Swedish)
  • 𐍅𐌰𐌿𐍂𐌳 (waurd) (Gothic)

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