Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/alinu
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *alinō.
Noun
edit*alinu f[1]
Inflection
editō-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *alinu | |
Genitive | *alinā | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *alinu | *alinō |
Accusative | *alinā | *alinā |
Genitive | *alinā | *alinō |
Dative | *alinē | *alinōm, *alinum |
Instrumental | *alinu | *alinōm, *alinum |
Descendants
edit- Old English: eln
- Old Frisian: elne, ielne
- Old Saxon: elina
- Old Dutch: *elina
- Old High German: elina, elena, elna, elle
- → Vulgar Latin: *alina (also possibly from Gothic)
References
edit- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 330: “PWGmc *alinu”