Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/stillī

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-Indo-European *(s)telH- (“to be silent; to be still”).^[1]

Adjective

*stillī^[2]

still
quiet

Inflection

ja-stem
Singular	Masculine
Nominative	*stillī
Genitive	*stillijas
Singular	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*stillī	*stilliju	*stillī
Accusative	*stillijanā	*stillijā	*stillī
Genitive	*stillijas	*stillijeʀā	*stillijas
Dative	*stillijumē	*stillijeʀē	*stillijumē
Instrumental	*stilliju	*stillijeʀu	*stilliju
Plural	Masculine	Feminine	Neuter
Nominative	*stillijē	*stillijō	*stilliju
Accusative	*stillijā	*stillijā	*stilliju
Genitive	*stillijeʀō	*stillijeʀō	*stillijeʀō
Dative	stillijēm, stillijum	stillijēm, stillijum	stillijēm, stillijum
Instrumental	stillijēm, stillijum	stillijēm, stillijum	stillijēm, stillijum

Derived terms

Descendants

Old English: stille
- Middle English: stille
  - English: still
  - Scots: stil, still
Old Frisian: stille, still
- Saterland Frisian: stil
- West Frisian: stil
Old Saxon: stilli
- Middle Low German: stille
  - Low German: still
  - → Norwegian: stille
  - → Swedish: stilla
  - → Danish: stille
Old Dutch: stilli
- Middle Dutch: stille
  - Dutch: stil
    - Afrikaans: stil
Old High German: stilli
- Middle High German: stille
  - German: still
  - Luxembourgish: stëll
  - Vilamovian: śtył
  - Yiddish: שטיל (shtil)

References

^ Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tol-ī-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 382-3
^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) “still”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN: “wg. *stellja-”

[1] Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*tol-ī-yo-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 382-3

[2] Friedrich Kluge (1989) “still”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN: “wg. *stellja-”

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