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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/flagil

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

Origin disputed. Most sources state the term is most likely borrowed from Latin flagellum (“winnowing tool, thresher, small whip”).[1]

Alternatively, and perhaps less likely, the term is possibly a native formation inherited from Proto-Germanic *flagilaz, from a lost verb *flahaną (“to strike, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂g-, *pleh₂k- (“to beat, strike”), from *pel- (“to beat, push”) + *-ilaz (masculine agent suffix); related to Proto-Germanic *flagǭ (“a blow, strike, hit”), *flōkaną (“to beat, strike”), *flakkōną (“to beat”), and therefore distantly related to English flag, flack. For an example of another term previously considered to be derived from the Latin due to coincidental semblance of form and meaning, see English pluck.

Noun

*flagil m

  1. flail (agricultural tool)

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *flagil
Genitive *flagilas
Singular Plural
Nominative *flagil *flagilō, *flagilōs
Accusative *flagil *flagilā
Genitive *flagilas *flagilō
Dative *flagilē *flagilum
Instrumental *flagilu *flagilum

Descendants
  • Old English: fliġel, *fleġel
  • Old Frisian: fleil, flail m; fleile, flaile f
    • North Frisian:
      Föhr-Amrum: flaiel, flailer
      Helgoland: Vlaien
      Mooring and Sylt:
      Mooring: floil
      Sylt: Flail
      Wiedingharde:
      Emsbull: flöiel
      Rodenäs: floil, floi
    • Saterland Frisian: Floaine
    • West Frisian: fleil, flaaiel
  • Old Saxon: flegil
    • Middle Low German: vlegel, plegel
      • Low German: Flegel
      • Plautdietsch: Fläajel
      • → Danish: plejl
      • → North Frisian:
        Halligen: fläägel
      • → Saterland Frisian: Flägel
  • Old Dutch: *flegil
    • Middle Dutch: vlegel, vleil
      • Dutch: vlegel
        • Afrikaans: vleël
      • Limburgish: vlegel
      • West Flemish: fleil
      • → Old Frisian: flēgel
        • West Frisian: fleagel, flegel (Hindeloopen, Schiermonnikoog)
  • Old High German: flegil
    • Middle High German: vlegel, pflegel
      • Alemannic German: Pflegel
        Alsatian: Flejl
      • Central Franconian: Fleel, Fliel
        Hunsrik: Fleghel
      • German: Flegel, Pflegel (archaic)
      • East Franconian: Flechl, Flegl, Fleichl
      • Luxembourgish: Fléiwel, Fleel, Fléiel
      • Rhine Franconian: Flejel
        Hessian: Fleel, Flechl, Fleschl
        Palatine German: Fleel, Flechel, Flejel, Fliel
      • Vilamovian: fłygel

References
  1. The template Template:R:fy:EDWFFV does not use the parameter(s): 
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    Please see Module:checkparams for help with this warning.    Norbruis, Stefan (2015) “flegel”, in Etymological Dictionary of West Frisian Farming Vocabulary‎, Leiden: Leiden University, pages 21-22: “*flagila- n. ‘flail’ (<(<) Lat. flagellum n. ‘whip; flail’)”..
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