n.
‘(meat gained in) hunting’ (Modern English waith)
PGmc Ancestor
*waiþjō
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
veiðr ‘a catch, hunting, fishing’
(ONP veiðr (sb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far veiði, veiða, Icel veiði, veiður, Norw veidd, Sw veydhe
OE Cognate
wāð ‘wandering, hunting’
Phonological and morphological markers
ON /ei/ < PGmc */ai/
Summary category
A1*bc
N and alliterative only in ME literature; and confined to the NW (Lan., Cum.) in names cited by EPNE.
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 1381