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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/maltą

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

Etymology

Uncertain, from *maltaz (“soft, gone bad”), or directly from *meltaną; ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *meld- (“to beat, crush, grind”), also the root of *mildijaz.[1] Not few voices (Uhlenbeck, Bernecker, Brückner, Kiparsky, Skok and others) deem the word instead regularly formed in Proto-Slavic *molto, which you may see, from *melti (“to grind”).

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈmɑl.tɑ̃/

Noun

*maltą n

  1. malt

Inflection
neuter a-stemDeclension of *maltą (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *maltą *maltō
vocative *maltą *maltō
accusative *maltą *maltō
genitive *maltas, *maltis *maltǫ̂
dative *maltai *maltamaz
instrumental *maltō *maltamiz

Alternative reconstructions
  • *maltaz

Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic: *malt
    • Old English: mealt, malt
      • Middle English: malt, malte, maltt, mault, maulte
        • English: malt
        • Scots: maut
        • Yola: mault
    • Old Frisian: malt
    • Old Saxon: malt
      • Middle Low German: malt, molt
        • German Low German: Molt
    • Old Dutch: malt
    • Old High German: malz
      • Middle High German: malz
    • → Proto-Slavic: *molto (see there for further descendants)
  • Old Norse: malt
  • → Proto-Finnic: *maldas (see there for further descendants) (< *maltaz)

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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