Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/katil

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 *katilaz.

Noun

*katil m[1]

kettle

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*katil	katilō, katilōs
Accusative	*katil	*katilā
Genitive	*katilas	*katilō
Dative	*katilē	*katilum
Instrumental	*katilu	*katilum

Descendants

Old English: ċietel, ċytel, ċetel
- Middle English: ketel, ketil, chetel (through confluence with Old Norse form)
  - Scots: ketill, cattell, cattill
  - English: kettle
    - → Zulu: igedlela
Old Frisian: tsietel, zetel, szetel, sthitil, ketel, tsetel
- North Frisian: sedel
- Saterland Frisian: Seetel
- West Frisian: tsjettel
Old Saxon: ketil
- Middle Low German: kētel, kettel
  - Plautdietsch: Kjätel
Old Dutch: *ketil
- Middle Dutch: ketel
  - Dutch: ketel
    - Afrikaans: ketel
Old High German: kezzil, chezzil
- Middle High German: kezzel
  - German: Kessel
  - Hunsrik: Kessel
  - Luxembourgish: Kessel
  - Pennsylvania German: Kessel
  - Vilamovian: kesuł
  - Yiddish: קעסל‎ (kesl)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 216: “PWGmc *katil”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 216: “PWGmc *katil”