Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/-ud-

Etymology
From pre-Germanic *-ut, oblique *-ít-. The suffix is also found in Latin, oblique capit-, and Celtic (Old Irish ), which is additionally cognate to the Germanic ethnonym *Harudiz, attested as Latin.

Derived terms
The suffix was originally a consonant-stem, probably masculine or neuter in origin, which showed a strong tendency towards thematicization in the daughter languages, with generalization of either the strong or weak stem.