Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/labal
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editNoun
edit*labal m[1]
Inflection
editMasculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *labal | |
Genitive | *labalas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *labal | *labalō, *labalōs |
Accusative | *labal | *labalā |
Genitive | *labalas | *labalō |
Dative | *labalē | *labalum |
Instrumental | *labalu | *labalum |
Alternative reconstructions
edit- *labil
Descendants
edit- Old English: læfel, lefel
- Old Frisian: *level
- ⇒ Old Frisian: leflen
- ⇒ Old Frisian: levin, lioven
- →⇒ Middle Low German: lōvenbecken, loevenbecken, lōfbecken
- ⇒ Old Frisian: levin, lioven
- ⇒ Old Frisian: leflen
- Old Saxon: laƀil, lavil
- Old Dutch: *lavil
- Middle Dutch: level
- Old High German: labal, label, lapel
- Middle High German: label
References
edit- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *labal”