Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bullô

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

An ablaut variant of *ballô (“ball”), whence also *balluz.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbul.lɔːː/

Noun

*bullô m

round object; ball; bowl

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *bullô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*bullô	*bullaniz
vocative	*bullô	*bullaniz
accusative	*bullanų	*bullanunz
genitive	*bulliniz	*bullanǫ̂
dative	*bullini	*bullammaz
instrumental	*bullinē	*bullammiz

Related terms

Derived terms

*þrutabullô
- Proto-West Germanic: *þrotabollō
  - Old English: þrotbolla
  - Old Frisian: throtbola

Descendants

Old English: bolla
- Middle English: bolle
  - English: bowl
  - Scots: boll, bow, (?) bowie
  - → Proto-Brythonic:
    - Breton: bolenn
    - Welsh: powlen
  - → Middle French: bolle
    - French: bol
      - → Catalan: bol
      - → Greek: μπολ (bol)
Old Frisian: bolla
- West Frisian: bôle
Old Saxon: bollo
- Middle Low German: bolle
  - German Low German: Boll, Bolle
Frankish: *bollo
- Middle Dutch: bolle
  - Dutch: bol
Old Norse: bolli
- Icelandic: bolli
- Faroese: bolli
- Old Swedish: bulle, bolle
  - Swedish: bulle
→ Finnish: pullo

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 83