Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/spil

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 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

Unknown[1]; sometimes compared to Latvian spîlêt (“to pinch, clamp”), though semantically unconvincing.[2]

Noun

*spil n

  1. dance
  2. game, exercise

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *spil
Genitive *spilas
Singular Plural
Nominative *spil *spilō, *spilōs
Accusative *spil *spilā
Genitive *spilas *spilō
Dative *spilē *spilum
Instrumental *spilu *spilum

Derived terms

Descendants

Further reading

  • Guus Kroonen (2013) “spila-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 467

References

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “687”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page Spiel
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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