Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/Wē₂landuz

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

Unknown; first element suggested to be related to Old Norse vél, from Proto-Germanic *wīlą (“craft; deceit”), however this is disputed.^[1] Second element may be from agent noun suffix Proto-Germanic *-andz.^[2]

Proper noun

*Wē₂landuz m^[2]

Wayland, a great smith in Germanic legend, brother of Egil

Inflection

Declension of *Wē₂landuz (u-stem)
	singular
nominative	*Wē₂landuz
vocative	*Wē₂landu
accusative	*Wē₂landų
genitive	*Wē₂landauz
dative	*Wē₂landiwi
instrumental	*Wē₂landū

Alternative reconstructions

*Wē₂landaz^[2]
*Wēlandaz^[3]

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *Wēlandu
- Old English: Wēland, Wēlund
  - English: Wayland
- Old Frisian: ᚹᛖᛚᚩᛞᚢ (weladu /⁠Wēla(n)də̣^[4]⁠/)
- Old High German: Wielant, Wēlant, Wiolant
  - Middle High German: Wielant
    - German: Wieland
- → Latin: Vēlandu [6th c., Ebersheim]
Old Norse: Vǫlundr
- Icelandic: Völundur
- Faroese: Valindur, Valintur
Gothic: *𐍅𐌹𐌻𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌿𐍃 (*wīlandus)
- → Latin: Wīlandus

References

^ Förstemann, Ernst (1900) “VELA”, in Altdeutsches Namenbuch‎^[1] (in German), 2nd edition, volume I: Personennamen, Bonn: P. Hanstein's Verlag, →OCLC, column 1554
↑ ^2.0 ^2.1 ^2.2 Nedoma, Robert (2014) “Voraltfriesisch -u im Nominativ und Akkusativ Sg. der maskulinen a-Stämme”, in Bremmer Jr, Rolf H., Laker, Stephen, Vries, Oebele, editors, Directions for Old Frisian Philology (Amsterdamer Beiträge zur älteren Germanistik; 73) (in German), Amsterdam, New York, →DOI: “*Wē₂landaz (-uz?)”
^ Agee, Joshua (2018) “A Glottometric Subgrouping of the Early Germanic Languages (PhD thesis)”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2], San Jose State University, →DOI, page 158: “PGmc *wēlandaz”
^ Nedoma, Robert (2004) Personennamen in südgermanischen Runeninschriften (Indogermanische Bibliothek. 3. Reihe: Untersuchungen) (in German), Heidelberg: Carl Winter, →ISBN, page 166: “Wēla(n)də̣”