Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hwehwlą
Appearance
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Indo-European *kʷékʷlom (“wheel”).[1] The plural *hweulō is from the Proto-Indo-European collective *kʷekʷléh₂ (“wheels”), and the neuter gender was likely back-formed from that.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]*hwehwlą n
Inflection
[edit]The plural *hweulō descends from an Indo-European collective noun and shows the original Verner alternant *gw, which later became *w (represented by *u).
neuter a-stemDeclension of *hwehwlą (neuter a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *hwehwlą | *hweulō | |
vocative | *hwehwlą | *hweulō | |
accusative | *hwehwlą | *hweulō | |
genitive | *hwehwlas, *hwihwlis | *hweulǫ̂ | |
dative | *hwehwlai | *hweulamaz | |
instrumental | *hwehwlō | *hweulamiz |
Related terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *hwehwl
- Old English: hweogl, hweogol, hweohl, hweowl, hweowol (from singular), hwēol (from plural *hweulō)
- Old Frisian: hwēl (in compounds), fiāl, tziāl
- Old Saxon: hwiol
- Old Dutch: *wiol
- Old High German: *wihil
- >? Middle High German: *wihel (possibly extinct as simplex)
- ⇒ Old High German: wihilstein; *wihilasca
- German: wihelstein; *wihelesche
- Old Norse: hvél (from singular), hjól (from plural *hweulō)
References
[edit]- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*hwehla- ~ *hweula-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 264-5
Categories:
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *kʷel-
- Proto-Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic terms with IPA pronunciation
- Proto-Germanic lemmas
- Proto-Germanic nouns
- Proto-Germanic neuter nouns
- Proto-Germanic a-stem nouns