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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aþulijaz

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

Etymology

From *aþalą (nobility; kin, lineage) + *-jaz.[2][4]

Adjective

*aþulijaz[4]

  1. (West Germanic) noble
    Synonym: *aþalaz

Inflection


Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *aþulī, *aþlī
    • Old English: æþele, eþele
    • Old Frisian: ethele
      • Saterland Frisian: eedel
      • West Frisian: eal
    • Old Saxon: ethili
      • Middle Low German: ēdele, ēdel
        • Danish: ædel
        • Norwegian Bokmål: edel
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: edel
        • Swedish: ädel
        • German Low German: edel
    • Old Dutch: ethele
    • Old High German: edili
      • Middle High German: edle, edel
        • German: edel
        • Yiddish: איידל (eydl)

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Adel”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN
  2. Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*aþal(j)a-”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 27
  3. Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “ethele”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 96
  4. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aþulja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 40:adj. ‘noble’
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