Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/halōn

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *halōną, *halāną (“to fetch”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, cry, summon”).

Verb

*halōn^[1]

to call, summon
to fetch, get
to draw, haul

Inflection

Class 2 weak
Infinitive	*halōn
1st sg. past	*halōdā
Infinitive	*halōn
Genitive infin.	*halōnijas
Dative infin.	*halōnijē
Instrum. infin.	*halōniju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*halō	*halōdā
2nd singular	*halōs	halōdēs, halōdōs
3rd singular	*halōþ	halōdē, halōdā
1st plural	*halōm	*halōdum
2nd plural	*halōþ	*halōdud
3rd plural	*halōnþ	*halōdun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*halō	*halōdī
2nd singular	*halōs	*halōdī
3rd singular	*halō	*halōdī
1st plural	*halōm	*halōdīm
2nd plural	*halōþ	*halōdīd
3rd plural	*halōn	*halōdīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*halō
Plural	*halōþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*halōndī	*halōd

Related terms

*halān/*haljan
- Old High German: halēn

Descendants

Old English: *halian
- Middle English: halien, halen (with influence from Dutch or French verb)
  - Scots: hale, hail, haill
  - English: hale, haul
Old Frisian: halia
- Saterland Frisian: hoalje, haalje (Skäddel, Strukelje)
- West Frisian: helje
Old Saxon: halōn, haloian
- Middle Low German: hālen
  - Low German: halen
  - → Old Norse: hala
    - Icelandic: hala
    - Faroese: hála
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: hala
    - Old Swedish: hala
      - Swedish: hala
    - Danish: hale
Old Dutch: *halon
- Middle Dutch: hālen
  - Dutch: halen
    - Afrikaans: haal
  - Limburgish: haole
Old High German: halōn
- Middle High German: haln
→ Old French: haler
- Middle French: haler
  - French: haler
    - → Galician: halar
    - → Spanish: halar
  - Norman: haler (Jèrriais)
- → Middle English: haulen, halen (partially from Old English *halian, ġeholian)
  - English: haul

References

^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “holen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 314: “wg. *hal-ō-”

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “holen”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 314: “wg. *hal-ō-”

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