Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/þrostlā

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

Alternative forms

*þrosklā

Etymology

Related to *þrastuz (“thrush”).

Noun

*þrostlā f[1]

thrush
Synonyms: *þraskā, *þroskā, *þruskijā

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*þrostlā
Genitive	*þrostlōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*þrostlā	*þrostlōn
Accusative	*þrostlōn	*þrostlōn
Genitive	*þrostlōn	*þrostlōnō
Dative	*þrostlōn	*þrostlōm
Instrumental	*þrostlōn	*þrostlōm

Descendants

Old English: þrostle, þrosle, þrysċele
- Middle English: throstel, throstle, thrustel, threstel, thristel, throsle
  - English: throstle
  - Yola: drostal
Old Saxon: throsla
- Middle Low German: drôsle
  - German Low German:
    Bentheimisch: Dro̗ssel
    Westmünsterländisch: Drossel
    East Westphalian: Draussel, Draossel (Lippe), Dreossel (Ravensberg)
  - → Danish: drossel
Old Dutch: *throstela
- Middle Dutch: drossel
Old High German: throskela, throskala, *throstela
- Middle High German: droschel, troschel, trostel
  - Bavarian: Drostle
  - German: Drossel
  - Alemannic German: Dröschel
  - Luxembourgish: Dréischel

References

Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Drossel¹”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 156: “wg. *prust-lō”

[1] Friedrich Kluge (1989), “Drossel¹”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 156: “wg. *prust-lō”