Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þragilaz

This Proto-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-Germanic

Alternative forms

*þrahilaz, *þrēgilaz, *þrēhilaz, *þrigilaz, *þrihilaz

Etymology

From *þrēg-, *þrag- (“to run”), from Proto-Indo-European *trāgʰ- (“to pull, drag, race, run”) or Proto-Indo-European *tregʰ-, *tragʰ- (“to run”).

Noun

*þragilaz m

runner; gofer; servant

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *þragilaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*þragilaz	þragilōz, þragilōs
vocative	*þragil	þragilōz, þragilōs
accusative	*þragilą	*þragilanz
genitive	þragilas, þragilis	*þragilǫ̂
dative	*þragilai	*þragilamaz
instrumental	*þragilō	*þragilamiz

Descendants

Old Saxon: thragil, *thregil
- Middle Low German: dravel, drevel; drelle (< Old Norse?)
  - → Dutch: drel, trel (?)
Old High German: dregil, drigil, trigil, trikil
Old Norse: þræll
- Icelandic: þræll m
- Faroese: trælur m, trællur m
- Norwegian Nynorsk: træl m; (dialectal) trædl m, trel m
- Old Swedish: þræl
  - Swedish: träl c or m
- Old Danish: thræl
  - Danish: træl c
    - Norwegian Bokmål: trell m
- Old Gutnish: þrel
- → Irish: tráill
- → Middle Low German: drelle
- → Old English: þrǣl m
  - Middle English: thral, tharll, therll, thrall, thralle, threll, þral, þrall, þralle, þrel; ðral, þreal, þreall
    - English: thrall
    - Scots: thirl
- → Scottish Gaelic: tràill

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