Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/orgalā

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

Etymology

Borrowed and corrupted from Latin organa, organum.

Noun

*orgalā f

1. musical instrument

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*orgalā
Genitive	*orgalōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*orgalā	*orgalōn
Accusative	*orgalōn	*orgalōn
Genitive	*orgalōn	*orgalōnō
Dative	*orgalōn	*orgalōm, *orgalum
Instrumental	*orgalōn	*orgalōm, *orgalum

Descendants

• Old English: orgel, orgol
  • Middle English: orgel
• Old Frisian: orgel
  • West Frisian: oargel
• Old Saxon: *orgela
  • Middle Low German: orgel, orgele, örgel, oregel, orgal, orgule
    • → Danish: orgel
    • → Estonian: orel
    • → Icelandic: orgel
    • → Faroese: orgul
    • → Norwegian: orgel
    • → Swedish: orgel
      • → Finnish: urut
• Old Dutch: *orgela
  • Middle Dutch: orgele
    • Dutch: orgel
      • Afrikaans: orrel
      • → Indonesian: orgel
      • → Japanese: オルゴール (orugōru)
        • → Korean: 오르골 (oreugol)
      • → Papiamentu: òrgel, òru
      • → Sranan Tongo: orgu
• Old High German: orgela, orgala, argela
  • Middle High German: orgele
    • Alemannic German: Oorgele
    • German: Orgel
    • Luxembourgish: Uergel
  • → Macedonian: оргула (orgula)
  • → Serbo-Croatian:

    Cyrillic script: оргуље

    Latin script: orgulje

  • → Slovene: orgle