Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/finhlō

This Proto-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-Germanic

Alternative forms

*finhilō
*fį̄hlō

Etymology

From earlier *finhilō, from Proto-Indo-European *pink-, variant of *peyḱ- (“to engrave, adorn, shape”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɸĩx.lɔː/

Noun

*finhlō f

rasp; file

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *finhlō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*finhlō	*finhlôz
vocative	*finhlō	*finhlôz
accusative	*finhlǭ	*finhlōz
genitive	*finhlōz	*finhlǫ̂
dative	*finhlōi	*finhlōmaz
instrumental	*finhlō	*finhlōmiz

Descendants

Old English: fīil, fīol, fēol, fēl
- Middle English: file, fyle
  - Scots: file, fyle
  - English: file
Old Frisian: *fīle
- Saterland Frisian: Fiele
- West Frisian: file
Old Saxon: fīla
- Middle Low German: vīle
  - Low German: File
  - → Swedish: fil
Old Dutch: *fīla
- Middle Dutch: vile
  - Dutch: vijl
Old High German: fīhala, fīgila, fīla
- Middle High German: vīle
  - German: Feile
  - Luxembourgish: Feil
Old Norse: þél ( < *fíla, *fél)
- Icelandic: þél, þjöl
- Faroese: fíla
- Norwegian: fil
- Old Swedish: fǣl
- Danish: fil
- Westrobothnian: fel