Etymograph

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Gepid

Gepid comes from Latin Gepidae, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *gibidōz ‘a Gepid’.

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gibidōz‘a Gepid’reconstructed
  2. Gothicc. 300–600*gibidostransliteratedGothic script *gibidos, a transliterationreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEGepidae
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1788Gepid

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed

Earlier history uncertain.

Lineage

  1. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*gibidōz‘a Gepid’reconstructed
  2. Gothicc. 300–600*gibidostransliteratedGothic script *gibidos, a transliterationreconstructed
  3. Latinc. 75 BCE–200 CEGepidae
  4. Englishearliest quotation 1788Gepid

Earliest quotation: 1788, Edward Gibbon, The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire: “A standing army was unknown under the first and…”

Linked words

through Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ- ‘to give, move’

hydrocephalus, cephalic, 16 more

through Proto-Indo-European *gʰebʰ-e-ti

forgive, gavel, 1 more

through Proto-Germanic *gebaną ‘to give’

give, gave, gift, 6 more

Today it means

noun A member of an East Germanic people related to the Goths.

Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.

Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *gibidōz / Gepid

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