Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/biliþī

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

Possibly from *biliþu (“equalness, likeness”) +‎ *-ī (abstract noun suffix), from *bil (“equal, alike”) +‎ *-iþu (“-ness, -th”), from Proto-Germanic *bilaz, *biliz.[1]

Noun

*biliþī n

likeness, image
example

Inflection

Neuter ja-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*biliþī
Genitive	*biliþijas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*biliþī	*biliþiju
Accusative	*biliþī	*biliþiju
Genitive	*biliþijas	*biliþijō
Dative	*biliþijē	*biliþijum
Instrumental	*biliþiju	*biliþijum

Related terms

Descendants

Old English: biliþe
Old Frisian: *bilethe, bild, byld
- Saterland Frisian: Bielde
- West Frisian: byld
Old Saxon: bilithi
- Middle Low German: bilede, bilde, belede, belde
  - German Low German: Bild
  - Plautdietsch: Bilt
  - → Latvian: bilde (or from Middle Dutch)
  - → Old Norse: bilæti
    - Icelandic: bílæti
    - Faroese: bílæti
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: bilete, bilæte
  - → Old Swedish: bilæte
    - Swedish: beläte, bild
  - → Old Danish: beletæ
    - Danish: billede
      - → Norwegian Bokmål: bilde
        → Norwegian Nynorsk: bilde
Old Dutch: bilithe, bilithi
- Middle Dutch: bēelde, bilde, belde
  - Dutch: beeld
    - Afrikaans: beeld
    - Negerhollands: beeld
  - Limburgish: beildj
  - → Latvian: bilde (or from Middle Low German)
Old High German: bilidi, piladi, biladi
- Middle High German: bilde
  - Central Franconian: Bild, Beld
  - Bavarian: Büd, Buid
  - Cimbrian: bilt, pilt
  - German: Bild
    - →? Estonian: pilt
  - Luxembourgish: Bild
  - Pennsylvania German: Bild
  - Yiddish: בילד (bild)

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*bila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 64

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*bila-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 64