Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hailag

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hailag

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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

From Proto-Germanic *hailagaz.

Adjective

*hailag[1]

1. holy, sacred

Inflection

a-stem
Singular	Masculine
Nominative	*hailag
Genitive	*hailagas
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*hailag	*hailagu	*hailag
Accusative	*hailaganā	*hailagā	*hailag
Genitive	*hailagas	*hailageʀā	*hailagas
Dative	*hailagumē	*hailageʀē	*hailagumē
Instrumental	*hailagu	*hailageʀu	*hailagu
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*hailagē	*hailagō	*hailagu
Accusative	*hailagā	*hailagā	*hailagu
Genitive	*hailageʀō	*hailageʀō	*hailageʀō
Dative	*hailagēm, *hailagum	*hailagēm, *hailagum	*hailagēm, *hailagum
Instrumental	*hailagēm, *hailagum	*hailagēm, *hailagum	*hailagēm, *hailagum

Descendants

• Old English: hāliġ, hāleġ, hālæġ
  • Middle English: holy
    • English: holy
    • Scots: haly, halie
• Old Frisian: hēlich, hillich
  • Saterland Frisian: hillich
  • West Frisian: hillich
• Old Saxon: hēlag
  • Middle Low German: hilch, hillich
    • Westphalian:

      Münsterländisch: hillig

      Westmünsterländisch: hillig

      East Westphalian: hilg (Ravensbergisch)

    • Plautdietsch: heilich
• Old Dutch: heilig
  • Middle Dutch: heilich
    • Dutch: heilig
• Old High German: heilag
  • Middle High German: heilec, heilic
    • Alemannic German: heilig
    • Central Franconian:

      Hunsrik: heilich

    • German: heilig
    • Luxembourgish: helleg
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: heilich

References

1. Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 335: “PWGmc *hailag”