Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/grindil
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Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]According to an almost universally accepted etymology, from *grindi (“fence”) + *-il (diminutive), from Proto-Germanic *grindiz (“fence”). A dissenting opinion by Trubachev argues for an early borrowing from Proto-Slavic.[1]
Noun
[edit]*grindil m
Inflection
[edit]Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *grindil | |
Genitive | *grindilas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *grindil | *grindilō, *grindilōs |
Accusative | *grindil | *grindilā |
Genitive | *grindilas | *grindilō |
Dative | *grindilē | *grindilum |
Instrumental | *grindilu | *grindilum |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old English: grindel
- Old Saxon: grindil, grendil
- Old Dutch: grindel
- Old High German: grintil, crintil, grindil, krindil
Further reading
[edit]- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*grindi-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 190
References
[edit]- ^ Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1980), “*gręda/*grędъ/*grędь”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 7 (*golvačь – *gyžati), Moscow: Nauka, page 120
Categories:
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *gʰrendʰ-
- Proto-West Germanic terms suffixed with *-il (diminutive)
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Slavic
- Proto-West Germanic lemmas
- Proto-West Germanic nouns
- Proto-West Germanic masculine nouns
- Proto-West Germanic masculine a-stem nouns