- pid-
- pid-English meaning: to bear (child)Deutsche Übersetzung: “gebären”?? originally ‘stark ziehen”?Note: only Gmc. and Celt.Material: Goth. fitan “ to give birth to children “, perhaps to O.E. fitt “fight”, Eng. fit “ attack of a disease, malady”, nwFris. fits “bissig”; M.Ir. idu, gen. idan, nom. pl. idain “throes of childbirth, pain”; die M.Ir. inflection goes auf O.Ir. ü-inflection back, as e.g. M.Ir. persu “person” auf O.Ir. persan; the O.Ir. nom. sg. muß somit *idan (*pidunü) gelautet have.References: WP. II 70; compare Feist 155 f.
Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary. 2015.