ON jóð n. ‘new born child, descendant’

Abstract

It is argued that ON jóð ‘child, descendant’, Gmc. *eu̯ð/þa-, is related to the root PIE *h ₁eu̯h_1/3- ‘to give milk, to suck’, either as a substantivized verbal adjective *h₁éu̯h_1/3-to- ‘nourished, fed’ comparable to *ǵenh₁to- ‘child’ (Germ. Kind) regarding the word formation, or as a noun *h₁eu̯h_1/3d^ho- based on the root shape *h₁eu̯h_1/3d^h- underlying Gr. οὖθαρ, Lat. ūber ‘udder’, etc.