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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/felþuz

This Proto-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-Germanic

Alternative forms

Etymology

Kroonen suggests Proto-Indo-European *pelth₂- (“field, plain”), though the normal form of this root is *pleth₂- (“flat”).[1] LIN prefers to derive this from *pelh₂-, the schwebeablaut form of *pleh₂- (“flat”).[2]

Noun

*felþuz m

  1. field, plain

Inflection
u-stemDeclension of *felþuz (u-stem)
singular plural
nominative *felþuz *filþiwiz
vocative *felþu *filþiwiz
accusative *felþų *felþunz
genitive *felþauz *filþiwǫ̂
dative *filþiwi *felþumaz
instrumental *felþū *felþumiz

Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic: *felþu, *felþ n
    • Old English: feld
      • Middle English: feld, feeld
    • Old Frisian: feld n
    • Old Saxon: feld n
    • Old Dutch: feld n
      • Middle Dutch: velt
        • Dutch: veld
          • Afrikaans: veld
          • Negerhollands: veld
          • → Caribbean Javanese: fèlt
    • Old High German: feld n
      • Middle High German: vëlt
        • Alemannic German: Fald
          Swabian: Fäld
        • Bavarian: Fejd
          Cimbrian:
          Mòcheno: vèlt
        • Central Franconian:
          Hunsrik: Feld
          Luxembourgish: Feld
        • East Central German:
          Upper Saxon German:
          Vilamovian: fald
        • East Franconian:
        • German: Feld
        • Rhine Franconian: Fald, Feld, Fell
          Frankfurterisch: [fɛlt]
        • Yiddish: פֿעלד (feld)
  • Old Norse: *fjalðr
    • Old Swedish: fialder m
  • → Proto-Finnic: *pëlto (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
  2. Wodtko, Dagmar S., Irslinger, Britta, Schneider, Carolin (2008) “*pleh₂-”, in Nomina im indogermanischen Lexikon [Nouns in the Indo-European Lexicon] (in German), Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, pages 562-564
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