Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/rādislī

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 *rādan (“to advise; to guess, interpret”) +‎ *-islī.^[1]

Noun

*rādislī n

Inflection

Neuter ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*rādislī
Genitive	*rādislijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*rādislī	*rādisliju
Accusative	*rādislī	*rādisliju
Genitive	*rādislijas	*rādislijō
Dative	*rādislijē	*rādislijum
Instrumental	*rādisliju	*rādislijum

Descendants

Old English: rǣdels, rǣdelse, rǣsele
- Middle English: redels, redel, rydel, ridil
  - English: riddle
  - Scots: riddill, riddil
  - → Norn: ridl
Old Saxon: rādisli, rādislo
- Middle Low German: rēdisle, rātsel, rādelse, rēdelse
  - German Low German: Raadsel
  - Low German: redelse, radelse
  - ⇒ Middle Low German: redelschen, redelszen
Old Dutch: *rādisli, *rādsili
- Middle Dutch: ratsele, raetsel, rādeles, rāles
  - Dutch: raadsel
    - Afrikaans: rasel, raaisel
Old High German: rādisli (hapax, Ripuarian)
- Middle High German: rātsal, rētsel (rare, Central German)
  - German: Rätsel

References

^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Rätsel”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 583

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Rätsel”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 583

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