Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flōdu

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 *flōduz.

Noun

*flōdu m or f

1. river
2. flood

Inflection

u-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*flōdu
Genitive	*flōdō
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*flōdu	*flōdiwi, *flōdō
Accusative	*flōdu	*flōdū
Genitive	*flōdō	*flōdiwō
Dative	*flōdiwi, *flōdō	*flōdum
Instrumental	*flōdu	*flōdum

Descendants

• Old English: flōd n or m, ᚠᛚᚩᛞᚢ (flódu) — Runic
  • Middle English: flod, flood, floode, flode, flowt, fflood, fflode, vlode
    • English: flood
    • Scots: fluid, flude
  • → Anglo-Latin: flōdus [13th c.] (England)
• Old Frisian: flōd n
  • North Frisian: floth
  • Saterland Frisian: Floud f
  • West Frisian: floed m or f
• Old Saxon: flōd m or f
  • Middle Low German: vlôt m or f
    • German Low German: Flood f
• Old Dutch: fluod f
  • Middle Dutch: vloet m or f
    • Dutch: vloed c
      • Afrikaans: vloed
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: flutu
      • Javindo: floed
    • Limburgish: vlood
• Old High German: fluot m
  • Middle High German: vluot m or f
    • Cimbrian: fluut m
    • German: Flut f
• → Vulgar Latin: *flōtus (see there for further descendants)