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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/māl
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *mēlą.
Noun
*māl n[1]
- time, occasion
- mealtime
Inflection
Neuter a-stem | ||
---|---|---|
Singular | ||
Nominative | *māl | |
Genitive | *mālas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *māl | *mālu |
Accusative | *māl | *mālu |
Genitive | *mālas | *mālō |
Dative | *mālē | *mālum |
Instrumental | *mālu | *mālum |
Descendants
- Old English: mǣl
- Middle English: mel, mele, melle; mal, male, meyle; mæl, mæle, meal
- English: meal
- Scots: meal
- Yola: meale
- → Irish: béile
- Middle English: mel, mele, melle; mal, male, meyle; mæl, mæle, meal
- Old Frisian: mēl
- Saterland Frisian: Moal, Mäil
- West Frisian: miel
- Old Saxon: māl
- Middle Low German: mâl
- Low German: maal
- German Low German: Mahl
- Middle Low German: mâl
- Old Dutch: *māl
- Middle Dutch: mâel
- Dutch: maal
- Afrikaans: maal
- Berbice Creole Dutch: mali
- Negerhollands: mal
- Dutch: maal
- Limburgish: maol
- Middle Dutch: mâel
- Old High German: māl
- Middle High German: māl
- Bavarian:
- Cimbrian: mal
- Mòcheno: mol
- German: Mahl, Mal, mal
- Hunsrik: Mol
- Luxembourgish: Mol
- Yiddish: מאָל (mol)
- Bavarian:
- Middle High German: māl
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 150: “PWGmc *māl”