Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/skulan
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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]From Proto-Germanic *skulaną. The change of sk to s observed in many languages is probably attributable to the word’s common appearance in unstressed position.[1]
Verb
[edit]*skulan[2]
Inflection
[edit]*skal, *skalt, *skulun, *skoldā[3]
This verb needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
[edit]- Old English: sċulan, sċeolan
- Old Frisian: skela, skila
- Old Saxon: skulan
- Old Dutch: sulan
- Old High German: skulan, sulan, scolan
References
[edit]- ^ Friedrich Kluge (2011) “sollen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 25th edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 857
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 109: “*skulan”
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 207: “PWGmc *skoldē”