Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/nāþlu
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Germanic *nēþlō.
Noun edit
*nāþlu f[1]
Inflection edit
Stem *nādlō-.
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants edit
- Old English: nǣdl
- Old Frisian: nēdle, nēlde
- Old Saxon: nāthla
- Old Dutch: nālda
- Old High German: nādala, nālda
References edit
- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 329: “PWGmc *nāþlu, *nādlō-”