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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/pagil

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-Germanic

Etymology

From a Pre-Germanic *bak-, most likely an early borrowing from an unknown language. Similar words are found in some other Indo-European languages, but the diverging phonology found across languages suggests a non-Indo-European origin.[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈpɑ.ɣi.l/

Noun

*pagil m[1]

  1. peg, rake
  2. a half-pint

Inflection
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *pagil
Genitive *pagilas
Singular Plural
Nominative *pagil *pagilō, *pagilōs
Accusative *pagil *pagilā
Genitive *pagilas *pagilō
Dative *pagilē *pagilum
Instrumental *pagilu *pagilum

Descendants
  • Old English: pæġel
    • Middle English: payle, paiell, paille, payl
      • English: pail
      • Yola: pyle
  • Old Saxon: pegil
  • Old Dutch: *pegil
  • → Late Latin: pagella (“a measure; measuring rod”)

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*pagila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 395
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