Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kwalu

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

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Noun

*kwalu f[1]

torture

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kwalu	*kwalō
Accusative	*kwalā	*kwalā
Genitive	*kwalā	*kwalō
Dative	*kwalē	*kwalōm
Instrumental	*kwalu	*kwalōm

Alternative forms

*kwālu

Related terms

*kwalm

Descendants

Old English: cwalu

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “*kwalu”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “*kwalu”