Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗The quality or state of being young. · The part of life following childhood; the period of existence preceding maturity or age; the whole early part of life, from childhood, or, sometimes, from infancy, to adulthood. · A young person. · A young man; a male adolescent or young adult.
From Middle English youthe, youghte, ȝouþe, from Old English ġeoguþ (“the state of being young; youth”), from Proto-West Germanic *juwunþa, from Proto-Germanic *jugunþō, *jugunþiz (“youth”), corresponding to young + -th (abstract nominal suffix). Cognate with Saterland Frisian Juugd, West Frisian jeugd, Dutch jeugd, German Low German Jöögd, German Jugend.
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- Inherited-form mentionyoutheenm
- Inherited-form mentionġeoguþang · the state of being young; youth
- Inherited-form mention*juwunþagmw-pro
- Derivation mention*jugunþōgem-pro
- Word-formation componentyoungen
- Word-formation component-then
- Cognate mentionJuugdstq
- Cognate mentionjeugdfy
- Cognate mentionjeugdnl
- Cognate mentionJugendde
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