Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/braud

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 *braudą, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰrewh₁-.

Noun

*braud m

1. bread

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*braud
Genitive	*braudas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*braud	*braudō, *braudōs
Accusative	*braud	*braudā
Genitive	*braudas	*braudō
Dative	*braudē	*braudum
Instrumental	*braudu	*braudum

Descendants

• Old English: brēad, brēod
  • Middle English: bred, bredd, brede, breed, breede, breid, brid, bread, bræd, bryad, bryead
    • English: bread
    • Geordie English: breed
    • Scots: breid
    • Yola: breed
• Old Frisian: brād
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum: braud

    Karrharder: brüdj

    Helgoland: Brooad

    Mooring: brüüdj

    Nordergoesharder: bruud

    Sylt: Bruar

    Wiedingharder: bruuid

  • Saterland Frisian: Brood
  • West Frisian: brea
• Old Saxon: brōd
  • Middle Low German: brôt
    • German Low German: Broot
    • Plautdietsch: Broot
• Old Dutch: *brōt
  • Middle Dutch: brôot
    • Dutch: brood
      • Afrikaans: brood
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: broto
      • Jersey Dutch: brôt
      • Negerhollands: brood, brot
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: brot
    • Limburgish: broead
• Old High German: brōt, prot, prooth, *brōd — northern variant
  • Middle High German: brōt, brōd
    • Alemannic German: Brot
      • Italian Walser: brot, broud, bruat, bròt, bröt
    • Bavarian: Brout, proat
      • Cimbrian: proat, pròat (Sette Comuni)
      • Mòcheno: proat
    • Central Franconian: Brot
      • Hunsrik: Brod
      • Luxembourgish: Brout
    • German: Brot
    • Pennsylvania German: Brot
    • Vilamovian: brūt
    • Yiddish: ברויט (broyt)