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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/falisaz

This Proto-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-Germanic

Alternative forms
  • *falisaz (West Germanic only)
  • *felzaz

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *pels-, *pelis- (“rock, cliff”), or perhaps an s-stem *pél-es-.[1] Compare Old Irish ail (“boulder, rock”), Proto-Celtic *ɸallo- (“cliff”), Sanskrit पाषाण (pāṣāṇa, “stone, rock”) and Pashto پرښه (parṣ̌a). Kroonen suggests reconstructing an acrostatic *pól-s ~ *pél-s-s, with o-grade based especially on the Old French borrowing falise.
Alternatively from a substrate language; more at πέλλα (pélla).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈɸɑ.li.sɑz/

Noun

*falisaz m

  1. rock, cliff

Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *falisaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *falisaz *falisōz, *falisōs
vocative *falis *falisōz, *falisōs
accusative *falisą *falisanz
genitive *falisas, *falisis *falisǫ̂
dative *falisai *falisamaz
instrumental *falisō *falisamiz

Descendants

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*fel(e)sa-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 134

Further reading
  • Matasović, Ranko (2009) “*fales-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 120
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