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●wade の語源について●

ここに、OED Online による wade についての語源解説をそのまま全部コピーペースト
する。ただ、わかりやすくするため、ときどき俺なりの記号などを付け加える。

A Common Germanic (originally strong) verb (not recorded in Gothic):
● Old English --- wadan (also gewadan), past tense wód, plural *wódon, past participle *gewaden,
corresponding to
● Old Frisian wada strong verb (West Frisian wâdzje weak, North Frisian waar strong, to wade),
● Middle Dutch waeden strong, later weak (Dutch waden weak) to wade,
● Middle Low German waden strong and weak (Low German waden, waen weak) to wade,
● Old High German watan strong, to go, press forward,
wade (Middle High German, modern German waten weak, to wade),
● Old Norse vaða strong, to go through, wade (Norwegian vada, vadda,
vaa strong, Swedish vada, Danish vade weak, to wade),
● < Old Germanic *wađ-: *wōđ- < pre-Germanic *wādh- = Latin vādĕre to go, proceed, walk.

★ The root, which occurs only in Germanic and Latin,
is represented also by the noun Old English wæd, Old Norse vað,
【Latin vadum (neuter) ford, shallow water】.
The modern English specific sense, ★‘to walk in water’★,
though prominent in the other Germanic languages, is not recorded
in Old English (unless perhaps in the compound oferwadan overwade v.).
In Old English the verb is almost confined to poetical use.

The strong inflection became obsolete in the 16th cent.