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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/pagil
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From a Pre-Germanic *bak-, most likely an early borrowing from an unknown language. Similar words are found in some other Indo-European languages, but the diverging phonology found across languages suggests a non-Indo-European origin.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈpɑ.ɣi.l/
Noun
*pagil m[1]
- peg, rake
- a half-pint
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
---|---|---|
Singular | ||
Nominative | *pagil | |
Genitive | *pagilas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *pagil | *pagilō, *pagilōs |
Accusative | *pagil | *pagilā |
Genitive | *pagilas | *pagilō |
Dative | *pagilē | *pagilum |
Instrumental | *pagilu | *pagilum |
Descendants
- Old English: pæġel
- Middle English: payle, paiell, paille, payl
- English: pail
- Yola: pyle
- Middle English: payle, paiell, paille, payl
- Old Saxon: pegil
- Middle Low German: pēgel
- Low German: pegel
- → Danish: pægl
- → German: Pegel
- Low German: pegel
- Middle Low German: pēgel
- Old Dutch: *pegil
- Middle Dutch: pēgel, peil
- Dutch: pegel, peil
- Middle Dutch: pēgel, peil
- → Late Latin: pagella (“a measure; measuring rod”)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*pagila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 395