Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wihslaz

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

From Proto-Indo-European *weyk-, *weyḱ- (“to change”) or maybe from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-, *weyg- (“to wind, bend”, literally “the act of yielding”).

Related to Latin vicis (“change”), Sanskrit विष्टी (viṣṭī, “changeable, changing”), and maybe to Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“week”) and Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to yield, to fold”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwix.slɑz/

Noun

*wihslaz m

1. change

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *wihslaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*wihslaz	*wihslōz, *wihslōs
vocative	*wihsl	*wihslōz, *wihslōs
accusative	*wihslą	*wihslanz
genitive	*wihslas, *wihslis	*wihslǫ̂
dative	*wihslai	*wihslamaz
instrumental	*wihslō	*wihslamiz

Related terms

• *wihslōną

Descendants

• Old English: wrixl f, wrixle n
• Old Frisian: wixle wixele
  • Saterland Frisian: Wiksel
  • West Frisian: wiksel, wissel
• Old Saxon: *wehsal, *wesl
  • Middle Low German: wessele, wesle
    • German Low German: Wessel
• Old Dutch: *wehsel, *wihsil
  • Middle Dutch: wessel, wixel, wissele, wissel
    • Dutch: wissel
      • → Indonesian: wesel
      • Afrikaans: wissel
• Old High German: wehsal
  • Middle High German: wëhsel
    • German: Wechsel
      • → Russian: ве́ксель (vékselʹ)
    • Luxembourgish: Wiessel
• Old Norse: víxl
  • Icelandic: víxl
  • Norwegian: veksel (likely borrowed from German)
  • Swedish: växel
  • Danish: veksel (possibly borrowed from German)