Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/spiltaz

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. It may or may not be cognate with Russian по́лба (pólba, “spelt”) and Latin puls (“porridge (usually of spelt)”) and Ancient Greek πόλτος (póltos, “porridge (usually of spelt)”). Possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pelH- (“to split off, separate”), or borrowed from an unknown substrate by Germanic and Latin.[1]

Noun

*spiltaz m

  1. spelt (a type of wheat)

Inflection

Declension of *spiltaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *spiltaz *spiltōz, *spiltōs
vocative *spilt *spiltōz, *spiltōs
accusative *spiltą *spiltanz
genitive *spiltas, *spiltis *spiltǫ̂
dative *spiltai *spiltamaz
instrumental *spiltō *spiltamiz

Descendants

  • Old Saxon: spelta
  • Frankish: *spelta
    • Old Dutch: *spelta
    • → Latin: spelta (see there for further descendants)
  • Old High German: spelz
    • Middle High German: spelz
  • Old Norse: spelti, speldi (< *spiltō)
    • Icelandic: speldi

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “spelt”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.