Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skellaną

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 *(s)kel-, probably from Proto-Indo-European *kelh₁- (“to call, to shout, to sound”) with a s-mobile. Cognate with Latvian skaļš (“loud; noisy”) and Russian скули́ть (skulítʹ, “to whine”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈskel.lɑ.nɑ̃/

*skellaną^[1]

1. to sound, clatter, ring

• *skallijaną
• *skalliz (“clangor, sound; clattering, ringing”)
• *hlōaną
• *halliz (“resounding”)

• Proto-West Germanic: *skellan
  • Old English: scellan, scillan
  • Old Saxon: *skellan
    • Middle Low German: schellen
  • Old Dutch: skellan
    • Middle Dutch: schellen
      • Dutch: schellen
  • Old High German: skellan
    • Middle High German: schellen
      • German: schellen
• Old Norse: skjalla
  • Icelandic: skella
  • Norwegian:

    Norwegian Nynorsk: skjella, skjelle

    Norwegian Bokmål: skjelle

• Seebold, Elmar (1970) “SKELL-A-”, in Vergleichendes und etymologisches Wörterbuch der germanischen starken Verben (Janua Linguarum. Series practica; 85) (in German), Paris, Den Haag: Mouton, →ISBN, pages 412-13