Germanic etymology : List with all references

Proto-Germanic: *riud-a- vb., *riud-ia- vb., *riud-ia- n., *riud-ī(n-) f., *rud-ja- vb.

Old Norse: { rjōδ-r 'offene, gerodete Stelle im Walde', rjōδa 'reuten, räumen' }

English: rid

Middle Dutch: rōden

Dutch: rooien

Middle Low German: rōden 'urbar machen'

Old High German: riuten 'roden, herausreissen, ausrotten' (10.Jh.), irriuten (9.Jh.); riutī f. 'durch Reuten urbar gemachtes Land' (10. Jh.), hiuriutī (um 900)

Middle High German: riuten wk. 'reuten, ausreuten, urbar machen', { roten 'roden' }, rieten st. 'ausrotten, vernichten'; riute st. n., st. f. 'stück landes, das durch riuten urbar gemacht worden ist'; md. rūten, rutten, roten, roden

German: obd. reuten; roden, ausrotten

Proto-IE: *reudh-

Meaning: to remove, to take off; to grub woods for making a cornfield

Tokharian: A, B rutk- 'move; remove, take off'

Old Indian: ruṇáddhi, rundhati, ptc. ruddhá- 'to obstruct, check, prevent, withhold'

Avestan: raoδaiti 'hält ab'; ptc. ft. pass. raoδya-, raoiδya- 'urbar zu machend'

Germanic: *riud-a- vb., *riud-ia- vb., *riud-ia- n., *riud-ī(n-) f., *rud-ja- vb.

Russ. meaning: убирать, лишать, задерживать

References: Adams 538.

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