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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/seþl
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *seþlą.
Noun
*seþl n[1]
- seat
Inflection
Neuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *seþl | |
Genitive | *seþlas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *seþl | *seþlu |
Accusative | *seþl | *seþlu |
Genitive | *seþlas | *seþlō |
Dative | *seþlē | *seþlum |
Instrumental | *seþlu | *seþlum |
Descendants
- >? Old English: setl, seatl, seatul, sedl, seld, seotl, seotul, seþel, seðl, sitl, sotl
- Middle English: setle, selde (with metathesis)
- English: settle, seld (with metathesis)
- Middle English: setle, selde (with metathesis)
- Old Saxon: sethal
- Middle Low German: sēdel
- Old Dutch: *sethal
- Middle Dutch: sēdel
- Dutch: zedel
- Limburgish: zaedel
- Middle Dutch: sēdel
- Old High German: sedal
- Middle High German: sedel
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 329: “PWGmc *seþl”