Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bullô

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

Etymology

An ablaut variant of *ballô (“ball”), whence also *balluz.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbul.lɔːː/

Noun

*bullô m

1. round object; ball; bowl

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *bullô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*bullô	*bullaniz
vocative	*bullô	*bullaniz
accusative	*bullanų	*bullanunz
genitive	*bulliniz	*bullanǫ̂
dative	*bullini	*bullammaz
instrumental	*bullinē	*bullammiz

Related terms

• *bellǭ
• *bullǭ

Derived terms

• *þrutabullô
  • Proto-West Germanic: *þrotabollō
    • Old English: þrotbolla
    • Old Frisian: throtbola

Descendants

• Old English: bolla
  • Middle English: bolle
    • English: bowl
    • Scots: boll, bow, (?) bowie
    • → Proto-Brythonic:
      • Breton: bolenn
      • Welsh: powlen
    • → Middle French: bolle
      • French: bol
        • → Catalan: bol
        • → Greek: μπολ (bol)
• Old Frisian: bolla
  • West Frisian: bôle
• Old Saxon: bollo
  • Middle Low German: bolle
    • German Low German: Boll, Bolle
• Frankish: *bollo
  • Middle Dutch: bolle
    • Dutch: bol
• Old Norse: bolli
  • Icelandic: bolli
  • Faroese: bolli
  • Old Swedish: bulle, bolle
    • Swedish: bulle
• → Finnish: pullo

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 83