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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

Category:Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HWAL Category:Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#HWAL Category:Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European#HWAL Category:Proto-West Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European word *(s)kʷálos#HWAL Category:Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European#HWAL

From Proto-Germanic Category:Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic#HWAL Category:Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic#HWAL *hwalaz.

Noun

*hwal mCategory:Proto-West Germanic lemmas#HWAL Category:Proto-West Germanic nouns#HWAL Category:Proto-West Germanic entries with incorrect language header#HWAL Category:Proto-West Germanic masculine nouns#HWAL Category:Pages with entries#HWAL Category:Pages with 1 entry#HWAL^[1]

Category:gmw-pro:Cetaceans#HWAL whale
Synonym: *hwalafisk

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	hwal, hwala
Genitive	*hwalas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	hwal, hwala	*hwalōs
Accusative	hwal, hwala	*hwalā
Genitive	*hwalas	*hwalō
Dative	*hwalē	*hwalum
Instrumental	*hwalu	*hwalum

Category:Proto-West Germanic masculine a-stem nouns#HWAL

Derived terms

*hwalafisk

Descendants

Old English: hwæl
- Middle English: whal, swale, wale, whalle, whale, quale, quall, qwall, qwalle (mainly Northern), whaale (late), qwayll, qwaylle (Catholicon Anglicum), hwæl (Early Middle English)
  - English: whale
  - Scots: whaul
Old Saxon: hwal
- Middle Low German: wal
  - Low German: Waal
Old Dutch: *wal
- Middle Dutch: wal
  - Dutch: wal
Old High German: wal
- Middle High German: wal
  - German: Wal
    - → Estonian: vaal
    - → Luxembourgish: Wal

References

↑ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *hwal”

[1] Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 50: “PWGmc *hwal”

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