nezzila

Old High German

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *natilā.

Noun

nezzila f

1. nettle

Descendants

• Middle High German: nezzel
  • Cimbrian: éssala (reanalyzed)
  • German: Nessel
    • → Yiddish: ברעננעסל (brennesl)
  • Yiddish: ניסול (nisul) (Middle Yiddish, attested in Shemot Devarim)

References

• Elia Levita (1542) Šěmôt děvārîm bilšôn ʿivrî u-bilšôn romiyyî gam aškenāzî [The Names of Things in Hebrew and Latin as well as German], Isny: Impressum Isnae [Paul Fagius], →DOI, Zentralbibliothek Zürich: Rv 209,3