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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/rādislī

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-West Germanic

Etymology

From *rādan (“to advise; to guess, interpret”) +‎ *-islī.[1]

Noun

*rādislī n

  1. advice, consultation
  2. supposition, guess, interpretation
  3. a riddle, puzzle

Inflection
Neuter ja-stem
Singular
Nominative *rādislī
Genitive *rādislijas
Singular Plural
Nominative *rādislī *rādisliju
Accusative *rādislī *rādisliju
Genitive *rādislijas *rādislijō
Dative *rādislijē *rādislijum
Instrumental *rādisliju *rādislijum

Descendants
  • Old English: rǣdels, rǣdelse, rǣsele
    • Middle English: redels, redel, rydel, ridil
      • English: riddle
      • Scots: riddill, riddil
      • → Norn: ridl
  • Old Saxon: rādisli, rādislo
    • Middle Low German: rēdisle, rātsel, rādelse, rēdelse
      • German Low German: Raadsel
      • Low German: redelse, radelse
      • ⇒ Middle Low German: redelschen, redelszen
  • Old Dutch: *rādisli, *rādsili
  • Old High German: rātisli, rātisla, rātilsa, *rātisal
    • Middle High German: rātsal, rætsel

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Rätsel”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 583
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