Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kesul
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This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence. |
Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Lacking Indo-European cognates outside of Baltic (Old Prussian sixdo (“sand”), Lithuanian ži̇̀zdras), the word is probably of non-Indo-European substrate origin; compare Georgian ქვიშა (kviša, “sand”).[1]
Noun
[edit]*kesul m
Inflection
[edit]| Masculine a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *kesul | |
| Genitive | *kesulas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *kesul | *kesulō, *kesulōs |
| Accusative | *kesul | *kesulā |
| Genitive | *kesulas | *kesulō |
| Dative | *kesulē | *kesulum |
| Instrumental | *kesulu | *kesulum |
Alternative reconstructions
[edit]- *kisil[2]
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old English: ċeosol, ċeosel, ċysel, ċisel, ċisil
- Old Saxon: *kesal
- Middle Low German: kēserlinc, kesserling, kēselinc, kīserlinc
- Old Dutch: *kesal
- Old High German: chisil, kisil
References
[edit]- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “kisila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 289
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 204: “PWGmc *kisil”