Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/ahslu

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ahslō.

Noun

*ahslu f^[1]

shoulder joint
Synonym: *skuldru

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*ahslu
Genitive	*ahslā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*ahslu	*ahslō
Accusative	*ahslā	*ahslā
Genitive	*ahslā	*ahslō
Dative	*ahslē	ahslōm, ahslum
Instrumental	*ahslu	ahslōm, ahslum

Descendants

Old English: eaxl, eaxel, esl
- Middle English: axel, axle, eaxle, æxle, exle
  - English: axle (obsolete)
  - Scots: aixle, exle
Old Frisian: axle, axele
- Saterland Frisian: ascle
- →? Middle Dutch: ocsele (see lemma)
  - Dutch: oksel
    - Afrikaans: oksel
Old Dutch: *assala
- Middle Dutch: assele
  - Dutch: assel
Old High German: ahsala
- Middle High German: ahsel
  - Cimbrian: aksela, aksala, aksl, aksel
  - German: Achsel
  - Vilamovian: aochsuł
  - Yiddish: אַקסל (aksl)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176: “PWGmc *ahslu”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 176: “PWGmc *ahslu”

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