Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/werud

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *werudą (“(band of) men”).

Noun

*werud n[1]

(North Sea Germanic) troop, war-band

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*werud
Genitive	*werudas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*werud	*werudu
Accusative	*werud	*werudu
Genitive	*werudas	*werudō
Dative	*werudē	*werudum
Instrumental	*werudu	*werudum

Descendants

Old English: werod, weorod
- * Middle English: wered, werd, wird
Old Saxon: werud

References

Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*werud”

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[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 127: “*werud”