Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/pagil

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 a pre-Germanic *bak-, most likely an early borrowing from an unknown language. Similar words are found in some other Indo-European languages, but the diverging phonology found across languages suggests a non-Indo-European origin.^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈpɑ.ɣil/

Noun

*pagil m^[1]

peg, rake
a half-pint

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*pagil
Genitive	*pagilas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*pagil	pagilō, pagilōs
Accusative	*pagil	*pagilā
Genitive	*pagilas	*pagilō
Dative	*pagilē	*pagilum
Instrumental	*pagilu	*pagilum

Descendants

Old English: pæġel
- Middle English: payle, paiell, paille, payl
  - English: pail
  - Yola: pyle
Old Saxon: pegil
- Middle Low German: pēgel
  - Low German: pegel
    - → Danish: pægl
    - → German: Pegel
Old Dutch: *pegil
- Middle Dutch: pēgel, peil
  - Dutch: pegel, peil
    - Afrikaans: peil
→ Late Latin: pagella (“a measure; measuring rod”)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*pagila-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 395

[EDPG-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*pagila-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 395

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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/pagil

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