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Danish
[ˈʋɛɡ̊d̥ɐ]
noun
Definitions
- (historical) night watchman
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle Low German wechter inherited from Proto-Germanic *wahtwō (watch, guard, vigil, earth, mud).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wahtwō
Gloss
watch, guard, vigil, earth, mud
Concept
Semantic Field
Modern world
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
泥
Emoji
⌚️
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Leibwächter German
- Nachtwächter German
- Strandwächter German
- Wächter German
- Wächterlein German
- вахтёр Russian
- *weǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wahtwō Proto-Germanic
- vakta Swedish
- väktare Swedish
- wahta Old High German
- wahtari Old High German
- wahtāri Old High German
- 𐍅𐌰𐌷𐍄𐍅𐍉𐌼 Gothic
- *wahtu gmw-pro
- wahta Old Dutch
- wacht Middle Low German
- wachten Middle Low German
- wachter Middle Low German
- wechter Middle Low German
- wahta Old Saxon
- vaktare Old Swedish
- *wahta, *wahtu Frankish
- *wahtwēn, *wahtōn Frankish
- agoaitar Old Occitan
- wahtari lng