Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mīliju
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Latin mīlle passūs (“Roman mile”, literally “thousand paces”).
Noun edit
*mīliju f[1]
Inflection edit
ō-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *mīliju | |
Genitive | *mīlijā | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *mīliju | *mīlijō |
Accusative | *mīlijā | *mīlijā |
Genitive | *mīlijā | *mīlijō |
Dative | *mīlijē | *mīlijōm, *mīlijum |
Instrumental | *mīliju | *mīlijōm, *mīlijum |
Descendants edit
- Old English: mīl
- Old Frisian: *mīl, *mile
- Old Saxon: *mīlia
- Old Dutch: *mīla
- Old High German: mīla, mīlla
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 *mīliju”