Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/talu

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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

From Proto-Germanic *talō.

Noun

*talu f[1]

narration, report
assessment, judgment
calculation, counting

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*talu
Genitive	*talā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*talu	*talō
Accusative	*talā	*talā
Genitive	*talā	*talō
Dative	*talē	talōm, talum
Instrumental	*talu	talōm, talum

Derived terms

*talōn

Related terms

*tal
*talljan

Descendants

Old English: talu
- Middle English: tale, tal, talle; taile, taille
  - English: tale
  - Scots: tale
  - Yola: taale
Old Frisian: tale, tele
- Saterland Frisian: Taal
- West Frisian: taal
Old Saxon: tala
- Middle Low German: tāle, tal
  - German Low German: Tahl, Tall
Old Dutch: *tala
- Middle Dutch: tāle
  - Dutch: taal
    - Afrikaans: taal
  - West Flemish: toale
Old High German: zala
- Middle High German: zale
  - German: Zahl
  - Hunsrik: Zaal
  - Luxembourgish: Zuel
  - Vilamovian: caoł
  - Yiddish: צאָל‎ (tsol)

References

Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196: “PWGmc *talu”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 196: “PWGmc *talu”