English
abode
Abode comes from Old English *ābād ‘wait, delay’, and goes back to Proto-Germanic *baidō.
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*baidōreconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*baidureconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150bād‘a wait, waiting’
- Old English, derivedc. 450–1150*ābād‘wait, delay’reconstructed
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500abod
- Englishearliest quotation 1590abode
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*baidōreconstructed
- Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*baidureconstructed
- Old Englishc. 450–1150bād‘a wait, waiting’
- Old English, derivedc. 450–1150*ābād‘wait, delay’reconstructed
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500abod
- Englishearliest quotation 1590abode
Earliest quotation: 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene: “Vpon his Courser set the louely lode, / And…”
The story
For the change of nouns, compare abode, preterite of abide.
Every English word from Proto-Germanic *baidō
Today it means
noun Act of waiting; delay.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Proto-Germanic *baidō / abode