Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/maltą

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

Uncertain, from *maltaz (“soft, gone bad”), or directly from *meltaną; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meld- (“to beat, crush, grind”), also the root of *mildijaz.[1] Not few voices (Uhlenbeck, Bernecker, Brückner, Kiparsky, Skok and others) deem the word instead regularly formed in Proto-Slavic *molto, which you may see, from *melti (“to grind”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈmɑl.tɑ̃/

Noun

*maltą n

malt

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *maltą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*maltą	*maltō
vocative	*maltą	*maltō
accusative	*maltą	*maltō
genitive	maltas, maltis	*maltǫ̂
dative	*maltai	*maltamaz
instrumental	*maltō	*maltamiz

Related terms

*maltaz
*maltijaną
*meltaną
*multōną

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *malt
- Old English: mealt, malt
  - Middle English: malt, malte, maltt, mault, maulte
    - English: malt
    - Scots: maut
    - Yola: mault
- Old Frisian: malt
  - Saterland Frisian: Moalt
- Old Saxon: malt
  - Middle Low German: malt, molt
    - German Low German: Molt
- Old Dutch: malt
  - Middle Dutch: malt, mout
    - Dutch: mout
    - → West Frisian: mout
- Old High German: malz
  - Middle High German: malz
    - German: Malz
    - Luxembourgish: Malz
Old Norse: malt
- Icelandic: malt
- Faroese: malt
- Norwegian: malt
- Old Swedish: malt
  - Swedish: malt
- Old Danish: malt
  - Danish: malt
- Gutnish: malt
→ Finnish: mallas (< *maltaz)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN