Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/falu

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

Alternative forms

*fali

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *faluz (“cruel, evil”).

Adjective

*falu

evil, cruel

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

*falljō

Descendants

Old English: *fæle, *felo, *fel
- Middle English: fel, fell
  - English: fell
  - Scots: fell
- ⇒ Old English: ælfæle, ealfelo
- ⇒ Old English: wælfel
Old Frisian: fal
- Saterland Frisian: fäl
- West Frisian: fel
Old Saxon: *felu, *felo
- Middle Low German: fel, vil (possibly a borrowing from Middle Dutch ?)
  - German Low German: fell
Old Dutch: *felo
- Middle Dutch: fel (reinforced or possibly reborrowed from Old French)
  - Dutch: fel
Old High German: *felo
- Middle High German: vel
→ Vulgar Latin: *felus
- Old French: fel, feu, feus, fels

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