Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sulī

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

Alternative forms

  • *swalī

Etymology

From a pre-Germanic ablauting paradigm *swol- ~ *sul-, with full-grade *swalī found in Old High German swelli, swella (modern German Schwelle (“threshold; railroad tie”)), Old West Norse svalar, Old Swedish svali (modern dialectal Swedish svale, svala (“porch, canopy”)). Further uncertain:

  • Traditionally, from Proto-Indo-European *swel-, *sel- (“piece of wood; beam, post, balk, board, threshold, sill”). Cognate with Lithuanian šelmuõ (“apex, roof, ridge”), Latin silva (“wood, forest”), Latin solum (“ground, floor, sole, bottom”).
  • In view of the phonetic and paradigmatic irregularities, as well as the semantic category, likely of substrate origin along with *sauliz, *sūliz (“beam; post, pillar”), *siuwilō and Swedish syll (“railroad tie”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈsu.liː/

Noun

*sulī f

  1. balk, bar, threshold, sill

Inflection

Declension of *sulī (ī/jō-stem)
singular plural
nominative *sulī *suljôz
vocative *sulī *suljôz
accusative *suljǭ *suljōz
genitive *suljōz *suljǫ̂
dative *suljōi *suljōmaz
instrumental *suljō *suljōmiz

Synonyms

  • *stuþilaz

Derived terms

  • *selmô
  • *swalī/*swilī

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *sul(l)i
  • Old Norse: syll
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.