< Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic
Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/selhaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Either from Proto-Indo-European *selk- (“to pull”) (compare dialectal English sullow (“plough”)) or from early Proto-Finnic *šülkeš (later *hülgeh, compare Finnish hylje, Estonian hüljes).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈsel.xɑz/
Noun
*selhaz m
- seal (animal)
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *selhaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *selhaz | *selhōz, *selhōs | |
vocative | *selh | *selhōz, *selhōs | |
accusative | *selhą | *selhanz | |
genitive | *selhas, *silhis | *selhǫ̂ | |
dative | *silhai | *selhamaz | |
instrumental | *selhō | *selhamiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *selh
- Old English: seolh
- Middle English: *selh, sele
- Early Scots: selich
- Scots: selch; selkie, silkie
- English: seal
- Early Scots: selich
- Middle English: *selh, sele
- Old Frisian: *selch
- North Frisian: selich
- Old Saxon: *selh, *selah
- Middle Low German: sēl, sale
- Plautdietsch: Säajel
- ⇒ Low German: saalhund
- Middle Low German: sēl, sale
- Old Dutch: *selh
- Middle Dutch: sēel, sāel, sēle
- Old High German: selah
- Middle High German: sëleh
- German: Seel (obsolete)
- ⇒ German: Seelhund ⇒ Seehund
- German: Seel (obsolete)
- Middle High German: sëleh
- Old English: seolh
- Old Norse: selr
- Icelandic: selur
- Faroese: selur
- Norwegian: sel
- Old Swedish: siæl, sæl
- Swedish: säl
- Danish: sæl
- Westrobothnian: skjāhl, sjöl, siḷ
- Gutnish: själ