Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/falisaz
Proto-Germanic
editAlternative forms
edit- *falisaz (West Germanic only)
- *felzaz
Etymology
editFrom Proto-Indo-European *pels-, *pelis- (“rock, cliff”), or perhaps an s-stem *pél-es-.[1] Compare Old Irish ail (“boulder, rock”), Proto-Celtic *ɸallo- (“cliff”), Sanskrit पाषाण (pāṣāṇa, “stone, rock”) and Pashto پرښه (parṣ̌a). Kroonen suggests reconstructing an acrostatic *pól-s ~ *pél-s-s, with o-grade based especially on the Old French borrowing falise.
Alternatively from a substrate language; more at πέλλα (pélla).
Pronunciation
editNoun
edit*falisaz m
Inflection
editmasculine a-stemDeclension of *falisaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *falisaz | *falisōz, *falisōs | |
vocative | *falis | *falisōz, *falisōs | |
accusative | *falisą | *falisanz | |
genitive | *falisas, *falisis | *falisǫ̂ | |
dative | *falisai | *falisamaz | |
instrumental | *falisō | *falisamiz |
Descendants
edit- Proto-West Germanic: *falis
- Old Norse: fell, fjall (possibly < *felzaz)
References
editFurther reading
edit- Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*fales-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 120