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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kulbaz
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Unclear; often compared to Latin globus and Latvian glēba, which are possibly from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to form into a ball”).
Noun
*kulbaz m
- round object, lump
- club, staff
Declension
| masculine a-stemDeclension of *kulbaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *kulbaz | *kulbōz, *kulbōs | |
| vocative | *kulb | *kulbōz, *kulbōs | |
| accusative | *kulbą | *kulbanz | |
| genitive | *kulbas, *kulbis | *kulbǫ̂ | |
| dative | *kulbai | *kulbamaz | |
| instrumental | *kulbō | *kulbamiz | |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *kolb
- Old Dutch: *kolf
- Middle Dutch: kolf (conflated with *kolbō)
- Old High German: kolb
- Old Dutch: *kolf
- Old Norse: kolfr
- Icelandic: kólfur
- Faroese: kúlvur
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kolv; (dialectal) kóv’e, køłv, kæłv, kałv, kvolv, kvøłv
- Norwegian Bokmål: kolv
- Elfdalian: kuov
- Old Swedish: kolver
- Swedish: kolv (dialectal)
- Danish: kolv (dialectal)
References
- Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*kulƀaz ~ *kulƀōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 223
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kulba(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 309