Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/gōd

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 *gōdaz.

Adjective

*gōd (comparative *batiʀō, superlative *batist)

1. good

Inflection

a-stem
Singular	Masculine
Nominative	*gōd
Genitive	*gōdas
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*gōd	*gōdu	*gōd
Accusative	*gōdanā	*gōdā	*gōd
Genitive	*gōdas	*gōdeʀā	*gōdas
Dative	*gōdumē	*gōdeʀē	*gōdumē
Instrumental	*gōdu	*gōdeʀu	*gōdu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*gōdē	*gōdō	*gōdu
Accusative	*gōdā	*gōdā	*gōdu
Genitive	*gōdeʀō	*gōdeʀō	*gōdeʀō
Dative	*gōdēm, *gōdum	*gōdēm, *gōdum	*gōdēm, *gōdum
Instrumental	*gōdēm, *gōdum	*gōdēm, *gōdum	*gōdēm, *gōdum

Derived terms

• *gōdnassī
• *gōdōn

Related terms

• *gad
• *gadur
• *gōdalīk
• *gōdī
• *gōdijan

Descendants

• Old English: gōd
  • Middle English: good, god, gode, goed, gude
    • English: good, goode (obsolete)
      • Solombala English: гудъ (gud), гутъ (gut)
    • Scots: guid
    • Yola: gooude, gude, gayde
• Old Frisian: gōd
  • North Frisian: gud, gödj, gur
  • Saterland Frisian: goud
  • West Frisian: goed
• Old Saxon: gōd
  • Middle Low German: gôt, gût
    • German Low German: good
    • Dutch Low Saxon: good
• Old Dutch: guot
  • Middle Dutch: goet
    • Dutch: goed
      • Afrikaans: goed
      • Javindo: goet
      • Jersey Dutch: xût
      • Negerhollands: goed, goei, goeie, got, gu, gue, guet
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: gut
    • Limburgish: good
    • Zealandic: goed
• Old High German: guot
  • Middle High German: guot
    • Alemannic German: guet

      Alsatian: güet (north), güat (south)

      Swabian: guat

    • Bavarian: guad, guat

      Cimbrian: guut, guat (Luserna)

      Mòcheno: guat

    • Central Franconian: jot, got, gut

      Hunsrik: gud

      Kölsch: joot

      Luxembourgish: gutt

      Transylvanian Saxon: geat, gäd

    • East Central German:

      Silesian East Central German: gutt (inflected gud-)

      ⇒ Silesian East Central German: Gudes (as in nischt Gudes, viel Gudes)

      Upper Saxon German: gudd

      Vilamovian: güt

    • German: gut
    • Yiddish: גוט (gut)