Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/asil

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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 from Latin asellus.

Noun

*asil m [1]

donkey

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*asil	asilō, asilōs
Accusative	*asil	*asilā
Genitive	*asilas	*asilō
Dative	*asilē	*asilum
Instrumental	*asilu	*asilum

Descendants

Old English: esol
Old Frisian: *esel
- North Frisian: eesel
- Saterland Frisian: Iesel
- West Frisian: ezel
Old Saxon: esil
- Middle Low German: esel
  - Low German: Esel
  - Plautdietsch: Äsel
  - → Danish: æsel
  - → Estonian: eesel (or from German)
  - → Norwegian: esel
Old Dutch: esil
- Middle Dutch: ēsel
  - Dutch: ezel
    - Afrikaans: esel
      - → Sotho: esele
    - → English: easel
  - Limburgish: aezel
Old High German: esil
- Middle High German: esel
  - Alemannic German: Esel
  - Central Franconian: Essel
  - German: Esel
    - → Estonian: eesel (or from Middle Low German)
    - → Lower Sorbian: ezel
    - → Tok Pisin: esel
  - Luxembourgish: Iesel
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: Esel
  - Yiddish: אייזל‎ (eyzl)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *asil”

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[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *asil”