Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mīliju

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

Borrowed from Latin mīlia passūs (“thousands of paces”, plural).

Noun

*mīliju f[1]

mile

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mīliju	*mīlijō
Accusative	*mīlijā	*mīlijā
Genitive	*mīlijā	*mīlijō
Dative	*mīlijē	*mīlijōm
Instrumental	*mīliju	*mīlijōm

Descendants

Old English: mīl
- Middle English: myle, mile
  - Scots: mile
  - English: mile
Old Frisian: *mīl, *mile
- Saterland Frisian: Miele
- West Frisian: mile
Old Saxon: *mīlia
- Middle Low German: mīle
  - Low German: Mile
Old Dutch: *mīla
- Middle Dutch: mile
  - Dutch: mijl
    - Afrikaans: myl
Old High German: mīla, mīlla
- Middle High German: mīle, mīl
  - German: Meile
  - Luxembourgish: Meil
  - Yiddish: מײַל‎ (mayl)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *mīliju”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 135: “PWGmc *mīliju”