Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hallą

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. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kHlnom (“encrustation, hardening”).

*hallą n

1. that which is dried up
2. dearth, scarcity, lack

• *hallaz

• Proto-West Germanic: *hall
  • Old High German: *hall (“brine? saltworks?”)
    • Middle High German: hal n (“salt spring, saltworks”)
      • German: Hall n (“saltworks”)
    • ⇒ Old High German: hallhūs, halhūs (“salt house, salt pit”)
      • Middle High German: *hallhūs
        • Swabian: Hallhaus
    • ⇒ Old High German: hallsalz, halasalz
    • ⇒? German: Hallstatt
  • ⇒? Proto-West Germanic: *hallu
    • Old Saxon: *halla
      • Middle Low German: halle (“location where salt wells and pits are found”)
        • German Low German: Halle (“Saale”, placename)
    • Old High German: *halla
      • Middle High German: halle (“salt preparation and/or storage area”) (perhaps a borrowing from Middle Low German ?)
• Old Norse: hall
  • Faroese: hall (“deficit, deficiency, want”)
  • ⇒ Old Norse: *halli m
    • Icelandic: halli (“deficit, loss”)
    • Faroese: halli (“deficit, deficiency”)

• David Stifter (2005) “Hallstatt – In eisenzeitlicher Tradition?”, in Interpretierte Eisenzeiten. Fallstudien, Methoden, Theorie. Tagungsbeitrage der 1. Linzer Gesprache zur interpretativen Eisenzeitarchaologie‎ (in German), Linz, pages 229–240