Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/pōlaz

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.

From Proto-Indo-European *bōlos (“bog, marsh”), which may be an European substrate term borrowed into multiple Indo-European branches, perhaps from Illyrian. Potential cognates include Proto-Slavic *bolto (“swamp”), Modern Greek βάλτος (váltos, “idem”), Romanian baltă (“idem”), Albanian baltë (“mud, swamp”),^[1] as well as Proto-Slavic *bala, *balъka (“pool; ravine”), Lithuanian balà (“bog; marsh; swamp; pool”), Latvian bala (“a muddy, treeless depression”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈpɔː.lɑz/

*pōlaz m

1. pool

   Synonym: *pullaz

• *pōlijǭ

• *paliz
• *pullaz

• Proto-West Germanic: *pōl
  • Old English: pōl
    • Middle English: pol, pole, pool
      • English: pool
      • Scots: pule, puil, peel
  • Old Frisian: pōl
    • Saterland Frisian: Pol, Poul
    • West Frisian: poel
  • Old Saxon: *pōl
    • Middle Low German: pôl, pûl
      • German Low German: Pool, Pohl, Puhl
      • → Norwegian: pøl
      • → Swedish: pöl
      • → Danish: pøl
  • Old Dutch: puol
    • Middle Dutch: poel
      • Dutch: poel
        • Afrikaans: poel
  • Old High German: pfuol, phuol
    • Middle High German: phuol
      • German: Pfuhl
      • Hunsrik: Puhl
      • Luxembourgish: Pull
• ⇒ Old Norse: *pœla (< *pōlijǭ)
  • Norwegian: pøla (dialectal)