Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/haslaz

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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/haslaz

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

From areal Proto-Indo-European *kóslos, which may be of substrate or Wanderwort origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈxɑs.lɑz/

Noun

*haslaz m[1]

1. hazel

Inflection

masculine a-stemDeclension of *haslaz (masculine a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*haslaz	*haslōz, *haslōs
vocative	*hasl	*haslōz, *haslōs
accusative	*haslą	*haslanz
genitive	*haslas, *haslis	*haslǫ̂
dative	*haslai	*haslamaz
instrumental	*haslō	*haslamiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *hasl
  • Old English: hæsl, hæsel, hæsil
    • Middle English: hasel, hasell, hasil, hasill, hasul, hasyl, haysell, hesel, hesill, hesyll
      • English: hazel (dialectal halse)
      • Scots: hazel
      • Yola: hawlse
  • Old Saxon: *hasal
    • Middle Low German: hāsel
      • Plautdietsch: Hausel
  • Old Dutch: *hasal
    • Middle Dutch: hāsel
      • Dutch: hazel
  • Old High German: hasal
    • Middle High German: hasel
      • German: Hasel
• Old Norse: hasl
  • Icelandic: hesli
  • Faroese: hesli
  • Norwegian:

    Norwegian Nynorsk: hassel

    Norwegian Bokmål: hassel

  • Old Swedish: hasl, häsle
    • Swedish: hassel
  • Old Danish: hasle
    • Danish: hassel

References

1. Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Hasel”, 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 295: “g. *hasla-”