Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/pendul

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

Borrowed from a Medieval Latin pendulum (“something hanging, pendant, penis”) and influenced in meaning by pēniculus (“small tail, penis, brush”).^[1]^[2]

Noun

*pendul m

tail, penis
bush

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*pendul
Genitive	*pendulas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*pendul	pendulō, pendulōs
Accusative	*pendul	*pendulā
Genitive	*pendulas	*pendulō
Dative	*pendulē	*pendulum
Instrumental	*pendulu	*pendulum

Alternative reconstructions

*pintil, *pindil

Descendants

Old English: pintel
- Middle English: pyntel, pintel, pintell, pintil, pintile, pyntell, pyntelle, pyntill, pyntul, pyntyl, pyntyle, pyntyll
  - English: pintle
  - Scots: pintle
Old High German: pfendil
- Middle High German: pfendel

References

^ Lloyd, Albert L., Lühr, Rosemarie (2017) “pfendil*”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (in German), volume VI: mâda - pûzza, Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 1396-1397
^ "Pendel" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

[1] Lloyd, Albert L., Lühr, Rosemarie (2017) “pfendil*”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen (in German), volume VI: mâda - pûzza, Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 1396-1397

[2] "Pendel" in Köbler, Gerhard, Althochdeutsches Wörterbuch (6th edition 2014)

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