Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sadulaz

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

Difficult to explain.

  • Though a cognate relationship to Latin sella (“seat; saddle”) and Proto-Slavic *sedъlò (id.) through Proto-Indo-European *sed- (“to sit”) is appealing, this suffers from formal issues. A pre-Germanic reconstruction *sod-dʰlo- or *sot-tló- (pace Kroonen)[1] is probably untenable, as adjacent dental consonants (including *ddʰ) are not expected to have yielded Germanic *d but rather *ss, and even an irregular deletion of original *d should have yielded compensatory lengthening of the preceding vowel. Moreover, a thematic *-Tlo- suffix fails to explain either *-ul- in the suffix or the root a-vocalism of Germanic.
  • An alternative, highly speculative option which avoids these phonetic pitfalls is to consider pre-Germanic *sét-ōl, *sot-l-és, uniting *sadulaz with *seþlą (“seat”). In this case *-ul- could have been taken from a neuter by-form *sét-l̥ when the two paradigms merged. However, the presumed root *set- (“to be stable”) is not well supported and not found elsewhere in Germanic. See Ancient Greek ἐτεός (eteós).
  • If not inherited, it is possible that the Germanic word was borrowed from early Proto-Slavic or Balto-Slavic. A borrowing scenario fits better with the historical evidence, which indicates that Proto-Germanic speakers may have lacked saddles. However, in this case the Germanic a-vocalism is problematic.

(Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsɑ.ðu.lɑz/

Noun

*sadulaz m[1]

  1. saddle

Inflection

Declension of *sadulaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *sadulaz *sadulōz, *sadulōs
vocative *sadul *sadulōz, *sadulōs
accusative *sadulą *sadulanz
genitive *sadulas, *sadulis *sadulǫ̂
dative *sadulai *sadulamaz
instrumental *sadulō *sadulamiz

Derived terms

Descendants

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*sadula-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 419
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