Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/felhaną

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.

Unknown. Possibly:

• If the sense “to go, enter” is original, related to *fulgāną (“to follow”), for which Kroonen reconstructs a Germanic-only root *pelk- (cf. Kroonen (2013), p. 159, s.v. *fulgēn-).
• If “to conceal” is original, related to Old Prussian pelkis (“cloak”), from an extension *pel-k- of Proto-Indo-European *pel- (“to cover, wrap; skin, cloth”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸel.xɑ.nɑ̃/

*felhaną^[1][2]

1. to enter, to go inside
2. to put inside, to conceal, to hide, to bury

• Proto-West Germanic: *felhan
  • Old English: fēolan
    • Middle English: felen
      • English: feal (“to hide”)
  • Old Frisian: fela
  • Old Saxon: felhan
    • Middle Low German: vēlen
  • Old Dutch: *felan
    • Middle Dutch: vēlen
      • Dutch: velen
  • Old High German: felahan, felhan
    • Middle High German: felhen, velhen
• Proto-Norse: ᚠᛖᛚᛡᚺ (felᴀh), ᚠᛡᛚᛡᚺ (fᴀlᴀh) (first-person singular present/past indicative)
  • Old Norse: fela, *fjala
    • Icelandic: fela
    • Faroese: fjala
    • Old Swedish: fiæla, fiala
      • Swedish: fjäla (dialectal)
    • Old Danish: fiælæ, fialæ
      • Danish: fjæle
    • → English: feal
• Gothic: 𐍆𐌹𐌻𐌷𐌰𐌽 (filhan)