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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/nāþlu

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

From Proto-Germanic *nēþlō.

Noun

*nāþlu f [1]

  1. needle

Inflection

Stem *nādlō-.

This noun needs an inflection-table template.

Descendants
  • Old English: nǣdl
    • Middle English: nedle
      • English: needle
      • Scots: nedil, neidil
  • Old Frisian: nēdle, nēlde
    • West Frisian: niddel, nuddel, nille, nulle
    • Saterland Frisian: Näddele
  • Old Saxon: nāthla
    • Middle Low German: nalde, natel; nadel (not found in most areas, rare elsewhere)
      • Low German: Nodel, Nadel (likely to be loaned from or influenced by German)
      • Plautdietsch: Notel
  • Old Dutch: nālda
    • Middle Dutch: naelde
  • Old High German: nādala, nālda
    • Middle High German: nādele, nālde

References
  1. Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 329: “PWGmc *nāþlu, *nādlō-”
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