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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wihslaz

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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *weyk-, *weyḱ- (“to change”) or maybe from Proto-Indo-European *weyk-, *weyg- (“to wind, bend”, literally “the act of yielding”).

Related to Latin vicis (“change”), Sanskrit विष्टी (viṣṭī, “changeable, changing”), and maybe to Proto-Germanic *wikǭ (“week”) and Proto-Germanic *wīkwaną (“to yield, to fold”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈwix.slɑz/

Noun

*wihslaz m

  1. change

Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *wihslaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *wihslaz *wihslōz, *wihslōs
vocative *wihsl *wihslōz, *wihslōs
accusative *wihslą *wihslanz
genitive *wihslas, *wihslis *wihslǫ̂
dative *wihslai *wihslamaz
instrumental *wihslō *wihslamiz

Descendants
  • Old English: wrixl f, wrixle n
  • Old Frisian: wixle wixele
    • Saterland Frisian: Wiksel
    • West Frisian: wiksel, wissel
  • Old Saxon: *wehsal, *wesl
    • Middle Low German: wessele, wesle
  • Old Dutch: *wehsel, *wihsil
  • Old High German: wehsal
  • Old Norse: víxl
    • Icelandic: víxill
    • Norwegian: veksel (likely borrowed from German)
    • Swedish: växel
    • Danish: veksel (possibly borrowed from German)
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