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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/felt

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

Derived from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, hide”).[1]

An alternative theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *peld- (“something beaten or compressed; felt”), from *pel- (“to beat; push; move; drive”). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*felt n

  1. felt

Inflection
Neuter a-stem
Singular
Nominative *felt
Genitive *feltas
Singular Plural
Nominative *felt *feltu
Accusative *felt *feltu
Genitive *feltas *feltō
Dative *feltē *feltum
Instrumental *feltu *feltum

Descendants
  • Old English: felt
    • Middle English: felt, felte, feltte, feelte
      • English: felt
      • Scots: felt
  • Old Frisian: *filt
    • Saterland Frisian: Filt
    • West Frisian: filt
  • Old Saxon: filt
    • Middle Low German: vilt
      • German Low German: Filt
      • Plautdietsch: Filt
      • → Danish: filt
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: filt
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: filt
      • → Swedish: filt (“blanket”)
  • Old Dutch: *filt
  • Old High German: filz
    • Middle High German: vilz
  • → Latin: filtrum (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*fellan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 97
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