Noun: giedd
Gender:
Nominative
| Singular | ġiedd |
| Plural | ġiedd |
Genitive
| Singular | ġieddes |
| Plural | ġiedda |
Dative
| Singular | ġiedde |
| Plural | ġieddum |
Accusative
| Singular | ġiedd |
| Plural | ġiedd |
Sample Sentences
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Iċ þis ġiedd wrece · bī mē ful ġeōmorre,
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mīnre sylfre sīð. (I unleash this song about fully mournful me, my own way.) [10th century, The Wife's Lament:]
Nouns inflected like giedd
gefeoht,
gebeorc,
gebland,
gedwild,
gedreag,
gewrixl,
gewealc,
geweald,
geweorc,
gewield,
gesteal,
geswinc,
gearn,
gield,
giedd,
gedwimor,
gebann,
gebind,
gecwed,
gedelf, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
There are no exact cognates, though the shape of the word points to a Proto-Germanic *gadją. This would make the ⟨ie⟩ from fronting of *a, palatal diphthongization and i-umlaut, and the geminate ⟨d⟩ from West Germanic gemination which was eventually leveled into the nominative/accusative singular, a development which happened to almost all ja-stems with light root syllables (see hyse).
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