Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/fiþulǭ

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.

Uncertain, but probably related to Late Latin vitula.

*fiþulǭ f

1. fiddle

• Proto-West Germanic: *fiþulā
  • Old English: *fiþele
    • Middle English: fithele, fedele, fedle, fethele, ffythil, ffythele, fieþle, fithel, fiþele, fydell, phetele, phethele, viþele
      • English: fiddle (dialectal feddle)
        • → Swahili: fidla
      • Scots: fiddle
      • Yola: videl
      • → Irish: fidil
      • → Scottish Gaelic: fìdheall
  • Old Frisian: *fithele, *fidele
    • Saterland Frisian: Fiedel
    • West Frisian: fidel, fitel
      • ⇒ West Frisian: fiteltsje
  • Old Saxon: *fithala
    • Middle Low German: vedele, vēdele, veddele, viddele, veddel, viddel
      • German Low German: Fiedel
      • Plautdietsch: Fiddel
  • Old Dutch: *fithala
    • Middle Dutch: vedele, viedele, vedel
      • Dutch: vedel, veel (archaic)
  • Old High German: fidala, fidula
    • Middle High German: videle, fidele, fidel
      • Central Franconian: Fedel, Fiddel
      • German: Fiedel, Fidel (see usage notes below)
        • → Lower Sorbian: fidle
        • → Polish: fidel
      • Rhine Franconian: Fidel
        • Pennsylvania German: Fiedel
      • Yiddish: פֿידל (fidl)
  • →? Late Latin: vitula, vidula (possibly) (see there for further descendants)
• Old Norse: fiðla
  • Icelandic: fiðla
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fidla, fela, fele
  • Old Swedish: fiþla
    • Swedish: fidla, fela, fejla
  • Old Danish: fithle
    • Danish: fidel, fedel, fele, fejle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: fele