Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/nāþlu

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

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *nēþlō.

Noun

*nāþlu f

1. needle

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*nāþlu
Genitive	*nāþlā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*nāþlu	*nāþlō
Accusative	*nāþlā	*nāþlā
Genitive	*nāþlā	*nāþlō
Dative	*nāþlē	*nāþlōm, *nāþlum
Instrumental	*nāþlu	*nāþlōm, *nāþlum

Descendants

• Old English: nǣdl
  • Middle English: nedle
    • English: needle
    • Scots: nedil, neidil
• Old Frisian: nēdle, nēlde
  • Saterland Frisian: Näddele
  • West Frisian: niddel, nuddel, nille, nulle
• Old Saxon: nāthla
  • Middle Low German: nâdel, nâtele, nâtel, nâtle, nâlde (not found in most areas, rare elsewhere)
    • Low German: Nodel, Nadel (likely to be loaned from or influenced by German)
    • Plautdietsch: Notel
• Old Dutch: nālda
  • Middle Dutch: naelde
    • Dutch: naald
      • Afrikaans: naald
• Old High German: nādala, nālda
  • Middle High German: nādele, nālde
    • German: Nadel
    • Luxembourgish: Nol (< nālde)
    • Yiddish: נאָדל (nodl); נודיל (nudil) (Middle Yiddish, attested in Shemot Devarim)