Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þelą

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

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Indo-European *telh₂-o-s, from *telh₂- (“flat surface, ground; board, plank”). Compare Proto-Slavic *tьlò (“ground, bottom”), Sanskrit तल (tála, “surface, sloor”), Latin tellūs (“earth; world”), Old Irish talam (“earth, dry land”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈθe.lɑ̃/

Noun

*þelą n

  1. floor; deal (plank)

Inflection

Declension of *þelą (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *þelą *þelō
vocative *þelą *þelō
accusative *þelą *þelō
genitive *þelas, *þilis *þelǫ̂
dative *þelai *þelamaz
instrumental *þelō *þelamiz

Descendants

  • Old English: þel n
    • Middle English: thele
      • English: theal (dialectal)
  • (Old Saxon: thili f)
  • (Old Dutch: *thili)
  • Old High German: dil m; dili n; dilo m
  • Old Norse: þel n; þili n; þeli n
    • Old Swedish: þiæl
    • → Finnish: teli
  • → Proto-Samic: *tielō (see there for further descendants)
  • → Proto-Finnic: *tëla (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*þelan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 419-20
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