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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kudilǭ
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Perhaps from *kuddô (“bag, sack”) + *-ilǭ (plant and animal suffix).[1]
Noun
*kudilǭ f
- cuttlefish, squid, cephalopod
Inflection
| ōn-stemDeclension of *kudilǭ (ōn-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *kudilǭ | *kudilōniz | |
| vocative | *kudilǭ | *kudilōniz | |
| accusative | *kudilōnų | *kudilōnunz | |
| genitive | *kudilōniz | *kudilōnǫ̂ | |
| dative | *kudilōni | *kudilōmaz | |
| instrumental | *kudilōnē | *kudilōmiz | |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *kudilā
- Old English: cudele
- Middle English: codulle, codel, codul, cotul, cutyl, cothell
- English: cuttle
- ⇒ English: cuttlefish
- English: cuttle
- Middle English: codulle, codel, codul, cotul, cutyl, cothell
- Old English: cudele
- Old Norse: *koðla[1]
- Norwegian Bokmål: kaule (or borrowed from Middle Low German)
References
- Torp, Alf (1919), “Kaula”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 261: “av *koðla”