*wēdiz

Runic: ᚹᛖᛞᛁᛉ Pronunciation: /ˈwɛː.ðiz/

noun · feminine · i-stem

Meanings

piece of cloth, garment

Presumedly the vṛddhi gerundive of *wedaną (‘to join, bind, tie’), via an unattested adjective *wēdiz (‘bound, joined, tied, sewn together’).

*wādi (Proto-West Germanic)
- *wāt, giwādi (Old Dutch)
  - gewade, gewaet, *watte (Middle Dutch)
    - gewaad, watten (Dutch)
      - gewaad, watte (Afrikaans)
      - waad, gewaad (West Frisian)
*wādi (Proto-West Germanic)
- wǣd (Old English)
  - wede (Middle English)
    - weed, weeds (English)
    - weed, weid (Scots)
*wādi (Proto-West Germanic)
- wēd, wēde, gewēd (Old Frisian)
  - Wääd (Saterland Frisian)
*wādi (Proto-West Germanic)
- wēd, wēde, gewēd (Old Frisian)
  - wēden (Old Frisian)
    - Wäiden (Saterland Frisian)
*wādi (Proto-West Germanic)
- wāt, giwāt, giwāti (Old High German)
  - wāt, gewāt (Middle High German)
    - Wat, Watte (German)
*wādi (Proto-West Germanic)
- *wād, wādi, wēdi, giwādi, giwēdi (Old Saxon)
  - wât, gewâde (Middle Low German)
váð (Old Norse)
- wad (English)
- váð (Faroese)
- voð (Icelandic)
- våd (Norwegian Bokmål)
- våd (Norwegian Nynorsk)
váð (Old Norse)
- váðmál, vaðmál (Old Norse)
  - vadmel (Danish)
  - vadmel (Norwegian Bokmål)
  - vadmål (Norwegian Nynorsk)
  - vadmal (Swedish)
váð (Old Norse)
- vāþ (Old Swedish)
  - våd (Swedish)
*vaat'ëk (Proto-Finnic)
- vaate (Finnish)
- vaate (Ingrian)