Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/spil
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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]Unknown;[1] sometimes compared to Latvian spîlêt (“to pinch, clamp”), though semantically unconvincing.[2]
Noun
[edit]*spil n
Inflection
[edit]| Masculine a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *spil | |
| Genitive | *spilas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *spil | *spilō, *spilōs |
| Accusative | *spil | *spilā |
| Genitive | *spilas | *spilō |
| Dative | *spilē | *spilum |
| Instrumental | *spilu | *spilum |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “687”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page Spiel
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*spila-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 343