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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/felhaną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈɸel.xɑ.nɑ̃/
Verb
*felhaną[1][2]
- to enter, to go inside
- to put inside, to conceal, to hide, to bury
Inflection
Conjugation of *felhaną (strong class 3)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *felhō | *felhaų | — | *felhai | ? |
| 2nd singular | *filhizi | *felhaiz | *felh | *felhazai | *felhaizau |
| 3rd singular | *filhidi | *felhai | *felhadau | *felhadai | *felhaidau |
| 1st dual | *felhōz | *felhaiw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *felhadiz | *felhaidiz | *felhadiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *felhamaz | *felhaim | — | *felhandai | *felhaindau |
| 2nd plural | *filhid | *felhaid | *filhid | *felhandai | *felhaindau |
| 3rd plural | *felhandi | *felhain | *felhandau | *felhandai | *felhaindau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *falh | *fulgį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *falht | *fulgīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *falh | *fulgī | |||
| 1st dual | *fulgū | *fulgīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *fulgudiz | *fulgīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *fulgum | *fulgīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *fulgud | *fulgīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *fulgun | *fulgīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *felhandz | *fulganaz | |||
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *felhan
- Old English: fēolan
- Middle English: felen
- English: feal (“to hide”)
- Middle English: felen
- Old Frisian: fela
- Old Saxon: felhan
- Middle Low German: vēlen
- Old Dutch: *felan
- Middle Dutch: vēlen
- Dutch: velen
- Middle Dutch: vēlen
- Old High German: felahan, felhan
- Middle High German: felhen, velhen
- Old English: fēolan
- Old Norse: fela, *fjala
- Icelandic: fela
- Faroese: fjala
- Old Swedish: fiæla, fiala
- Swedish: fjäla (dialectal)
- Old Danish: fiælæ, fialæ
- Danish: fjæle
- → English: feal
- Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌷𐌰𐌽 (filhan)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*felhan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 135
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*felxanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 97