Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/felþuz

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.

• *felþą n

Kroonen suggests Proto-Indo-European *pelth₂- (“field, plain”), though the normal form of this root is *pleth₂- (“flat”). LIN prefers to derive this from *pelh₂-, the schwebeablaut form of *pleh₂- (“flat”).

*felþuz m

1. field, plain

• *fuldō

• Proto-West Germanic: *felþu, *felþ n
  • Old English: feld
    • Middle English: feld, feeld
      • English: field
      • Scots: fielth, felth, feilth, feld, feild
  • Old Frisian: feld n
    • North Frisian: fjild
    • Saterland Frisian: Fäild
    • West Frisian: fjild
  • Old Saxon: feld n
    • Middle Low German: velt
      • German Low German: Feld
      • Low German: Feld
      • Plautdietsch: Felt
      • → Danish: felt
      • → Icelandic: felt
      • → Norwegian: felt
      • → Swedish: fält
  • Old Dutch: felt, feld, ueld
    • Middle Dutch: velt
      • Dutch: veld
        • Afrikaans: veld
          • → English: veld
        • Negerhollands: veld
        • → Caribbean Javanese: fèlt
  • Old High German: feld n
    • Middle High German: vëlt
      • Alemannic German: Fald

        Swabian: Fäld

      • Bavarian: Fejd

        Cimbrian:

        Mòcheno: vèlt

      • Central Franconian:

        Hunsrik: Feld

        Luxembourgish: Feld

      • East Central German:

        Upper Saxon German:

        Vilamovian: fald

      • East Franconian:
      • German: Feld
      • Rhine Franconian: Fald, Feld, Fell

        Frankfurterisch:

      • Yiddish: פֿעלד (feld)
• Old Norse: *fjalðr
  • Old Swedish: fialder m
• → Proto-Finnic: *pëlto (see there for further descendants)