Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wihslaz

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

From Proto-Indo-European *weyk-slo-s, from *weyk- (“to exchange, curve”). Related to *wikǭ (“week”) and *wīkwaną (“to yield, to fold”);[1] outside of Germanic, compare Latin vicis (“change”), Sanskrit विष्टी (viṣṭī, “changeable, changing”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈwix.slɑz/

Noun

*wihslaz m

  1. change

Inflection

Declension of *wihslaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *wihslaz *wihslōz, *wihslōs
vocative *wihsl *wihslōz, *wihslōs
accusative *wihslą *wihslanz
genitive *wihslas, *wihslis *wihslǫ̂
dative *wihslai *wihslamaz
instrumental *wihslō *wihslamiz

Descendants

  • Old English: wrixl f, wrixle n
  • Old Frisian: wixle wixele
    • Saterland Frisian: Wiksel
    • West Frisian: wiksel, wissel
  • Old Saxon: *wehsal, *wesl
    • Middle Low German: wessele, wesle
  • Old Dutch: *wehsel, *wihsil
  • Old High German: wehsal
  • Old Norse: víxl

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*wikōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 586: “*wī̆h-sla-”
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