Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/amslā

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₂ems- (“blackbird”), cognate with Latin merula (“blackbird, wrasse”), Proto-Celtic *mesalkā (“blackbird”).[1]

Noun

*amslā f[2][1]

blackbird

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*amslā
Genitive	*amslōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*amslā	*amslōn
Accusative	*amslōn	*amslōn
Genitive	*amslōn	*amslōnō
Dative	*amslōn	*amslōm
Instrumental	*amslōn	*amslōm

Descendants

Old English: ōsle
- Middle English: osel, osele, osul, osulle, osyll
  - English: oozel, ousel, ouzel (dialectal)
  - Scots: osil
Old Saxon: amsla
- Middle Low German: amsel, amelse
  - German Low German: Amsel
  - Plautdietsch: Aumsel
  - → English: amzel
Old High German: amsala, amsla, amasla, amusla, amisla
- Middle High German: amsel
  - German: Amsel

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Amsel”, 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 26: “wg. *amslōn”
Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 141: “PWGmc *amslā”

[EWddS-1] Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Amsel”, 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 26: “wg. *amslōn”

[2] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 141: “PWGmc *amslā”