Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hūwilōną
Appearance
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Ultimately of imitative origin. Said by Pokorny to be from Proto-Indo-European *kū-,[1] but others dispute this.[2] Also compare *heufaną (“to lament”), *uwwalǭ (“owl”) and Proto-West Germanic *hūō.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*hūwilōną
Conjugation
[edit]Conjugation of *hūwilōną (weak class 2)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *hūilōn, *hūlōn
- Old Norse: ýla, úla
References
[edit]- ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959) “kā̆u-, kē̆u-, kū-”, in Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 2, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 535-36
- ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “huilen”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute