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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/balluz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *bʰol-n- (“round thing, bubble”), from *bʰel- (“to blow, inflate, swell”). Cognate with Latin follis (“windbag, balloon”).
According to Kroonen, this was originally an n-stem (as preserved in Old High German ballo, German Ballen), and the North Germanic *balluz is an early back-formation from the old accusative plural **balluns.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈbɑl.luz/
Inflection
u-stemDeclension of *balluz (u-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *balluz | *balliwiz | |
vocative | *ballu | *balliwiz | |
accusative | *ballų | *ballunz | |
genitive | *ballauz | *balliwǫ̂ | |
dative | *balliwi | *ballumaz | |
instrumental | *ballū | *ballumiz |
Alternative reconstructions
- *ballô[1]
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *ballu
- Old English: *beall
- Old Frisian: *bal
- Old Saxon: ball, bal
- Frankish: *ball, *bal
- Old High German: bal
- Old Norse: bǫllr
- → Proto-Finnic:
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*ballan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 50
- Orel, Vladimir (2003) “*ƀalluz”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 34
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