Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/spil
Proto-West Germanic edit
Etymology edit
Unknown[1]; sometimes compared to Latvian spîlêt (“to pinch, clamp”), though semantically unconvincing.[2]
Noun edit
*spil n
Inflection edit
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *spil | |
Genitive | *spilas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *spil | *spilō, *spilōs |
Accusative | *spil | *spilā |
Genitive | *spilas | *spilō |
Dative | *spilē | *spilum |
Instrumental | *spilu | *spilum |
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
Further reading edit
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “spila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 467
References edit
- ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) chapter 687, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page Spiel
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN