Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/nēþlō
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *nēþlą + *-ō, Proto-Indo-European *(s)néh₁-tlo-m, from *(s)neh₁- (“to sew”) + *-tlom. Equivalent to *nēaną (“to sew”) + *-þrą + *-ō.
Pronunciation
Noun
*nēþlō f[1]
Inflection
The stem apparently had two Verner alternants, *nēþlō- and *nēdlō-, both still attested in West Germanic.
This noun needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *nāþlu
- Old Norse: nál
- Gothic: 𐌽𐌴𐌸𐌻𐌰 (nēþla)
- → Proto-Finnic: *nëkla (see there for further descendants)
References
- ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*nēþlō-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 388: “f. ʻneedleʼ”