Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ēlaz

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

Unknown; no known cognates outside Germanic, but an obfuscated substrate origin from a Neolithic language is possible.

Kroonen tentatively compares *ēlō and *alaz (“awl”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɛː.lɑz/

Noun

*ēlaz m^[1]

eel

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *ēlaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*ēlaz	ēlōz, ēlōs
vocative	*ēl	ēlōz, ēlōs
accusative	*ēlą	*ēlanz
genitive	ēlas, ēlis	*ēlǫ̂
dative	*ēlai	*ēlamaz
instrumental	*ēlō	*ēlamiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *āl
- Old English: ǣl
  - Middle English: el, eel, ele, hele, iel, yele
    - English: eel
    - Scots: eel
    - Yola: eale
- Old Frisian: ēl
  - Saterland Frisian: Äil
  - West Frisian: iel
- Old Saxon: āl
  - Middle Low German: âl, êl
    - German Low German: Aal
- Old Dutch: *āl, ael (in placenames)
  - Middle Dutch: ael
    - Dutch: aal
      - Afrikaans: aal
- Old High German: āl
  - Middle High German: āl
    - Central Franconian:
      Hunsrik: Ool
      Luxembourgish: Éil
    - German: Aal
    - Rhine Franconian: Ool (West Palatine)
Old Norse: áll
- Icelandic: áll
- Faroese: állur
- Norn: ål
- Norwegian: ål
- Old Swedish: āl
  - Swedish: ål
- Old Danish: āl, aal
  - Danish: ål
- Gutnish: al

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*ēla-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 116

[EDPG-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*ēla-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 116

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