Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/tilą

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.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Likely from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂y- (“to divide, part”), with a preform along the lines of *dh₂i-lo-s, though the exact phonetic details are unclear. Related to *tīdiz, *tīmô.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈti.lɑ̃/

Noun

*tilą n^[1]

a planned point in time

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *tilą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*tilą	*tilō
vocative	*tilą	*tilō
accusative	*tilą	*tilō
genitive	tilas, tilis	*tilǫ̂
dative	*tilai	*tilamaz
instrumental	*tilō	*tilamiz

Derived terms

*til (“to, toward, till”)
- Proto-West Germanic: *til?
  - Old English: til (unless borrowed from Old Norse) (see there for further descendants)
  - Old Frisian: til
- Old Norse: til (see there for further descendants)
*tilaz (“fitting, suitable”)
*tilōną (“to strive, reach”)

Descendants

Old Saxon:
- Middle Low German: til (“border, goal”)
Old Dutch:
- Middle Dutch: til (“circumstance, case”)
Old High German: zil
- Middle High German: zil
  - German: Ziel
    - → Hungarian: cél
    - → Serbo-Croatian: cilj
    - → Slovak: cieľ
    - → Slovene: cilj
  - → Old Czech: cíl, cíľ (alternative writing)
    - Czech: cíl
    - Old Polish: cel
      - Polish: cel, cyl, czel (Middle Polish)
        → Belarusian: цэль (celʹ)
        → Esperanto: celo
        → Kashubian: cél
        → Slovincian: cél
        → Russian: цель (celʹ)
        → Ukrainian: ціль (cilʹ)
      - Silesian: cyl
>? Gothic: 𐍄𐌹𐌻 n or m (til) (hapax, ambiguous)
→ Proto-Finnic: *tila
- Estonian: tila
- Finnish: tila (“room, space”)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*tila-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 517

[EDPG-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*tila-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 517

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