Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/falu

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Alternative forms

• *fali

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *faluz (“cruel, evil”).

Adjective

*falu

1. evil, cruel

Declension

This adjective needs an inflection-table template.

Derived terms

• *falljō

Descendants

• Old English: *fæle, *felo, *fel
  • Middle English: fel, fell
    • English: fell
    • Scots: fell
  • ⇒ Old English: ælfæle, ealfelo
  • ⇒ Old English: wælfel
• Old Frisian: fal
  • Saterland Frisian: fäl
  • West Frisian: fel
• Old Saxon: *felu, *felo
  • Middle Low German: fel, vil (possibly a borrowing from Middle Dutch ?)
    • German Low German: fell
• Old Dutch: *felo
  • Middle Dutch: fel (reinforced or possibly reborrowed from Old French)
    • Dutch: fel
• Old High German: *felo
  • Middle High German: vel
• → Vulgar Latin: *felus
  • Old French: fel, feu, feus, fels