Noun: arbeid
Gender: Masculine
Hyphenation:
uncountable
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like arbeid
groepsimmuniteit,
wintergroen,
nixtamalisatie,
homocultuur,
onbesprokenheid,
sesaté,
sepsis,
sterfelijkheid,
seleen,
stoomkracht,
beeldhouwkunst,
clitoridectomie,
kontlikkerij,
concurrentie,
sardis,
satijn,
militaria,
santen,
staatsterreur,
classicisme, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
1. From Middle Dutch arbeit, from Old Dutch arbeit, arbeith alongside arvit, arvith, from Proto-West Germanic *arbaidi ~ *arbaiþi, from Proto-Germanic *arbaidiz.
2. Some commentators think that the form with -b- must be due to influence by Old High German arbeit, but this is not certain. The stop could also have to do with a secondary stress that developed early on (and the Old Dutch vowels ei vs. i might confirm this). The same -b- also widely appears in Low German and Central Franconian, which have the same development of West Germanic *b as Dutch.
Verbs referencing "arbeid"
Swedish Nouns
arbete, Czech Nouns
robota, Old English Nouns
earfoþe.
Translations