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]
Further reading[edit]
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “spila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 467
References[edit]
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) chapter 687, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page Spiel
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN