Reconstruction talk:Proto-West Germanic/falu

PGmc *felaz

Hi Victar! When I added the etymology to (deprecated template usage) felon a long time ago, I didn't know as much about Pgmc as I do today. Thanks to a lot of help from the many knowledgeable editors/admins here, I reworked the original reconstruction *felaz to *faluz. As you can see, Old Frisian fal and the jumble of disassociated forms in Old English (fel, felo, fæle), could not have come from *felaz; but only from *faluz. Same for the Danish and MHG forms. I didn't know if you wanted to relink to the new form for PGmc or not. Leasnam (talk) 23:48, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

There is also the Old Dutch fel (“cruel, base”), which you might want to add : ) Leasnam (talk) 23:53, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

Oops, my bad! It appears I never fully created the PGmc entry! Let me do that real quick Leasnam (talk) 23:55, 27 May 2013 (UTC)

OK, done. Hope this is right. Any insight you can give would be very helpful. Koebler does have *felaz (or more appropriately, *fēlaz by the descendant ON and MHG forms: ON fála "witch"; MHG vālant "imp"; but I think these may only be distantly related to *faluz above. ? Leasnam (talk) 00:14, 28 May 2013 (UTC)

You're right, I'd say it was u-stem as well. Thanks Leasnam! --Victar (talk) 04:08, 28 May 2013 (UTC)