Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/felu

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

From Proto-Germanic *felu.

Pronoun

*felu

much, a lot
(+noun in genitive) a lot of

Adverb

*felu

much, a lot
very

Related terms

*fulu

Descendants

Old English: fela, feola, fiolu, feolu, feolo, fala; feola
- Middle English: fele, fale, feel, fel, feole, vele; feala, fela, felæ, feola, veole
  - English: fele (obsolete)
  - Middle Scots: fele (poetic)
Old Frisian: felo, fele, fel
- East Frisian:[1]
  Wangerooge Frisian: fêl, feyhl
  
  Wursten Frisian: vlia
- West Frisian: fel
Old Saxon: filu, filo
- Middle Low German: vele, vil
  - Low German: veel
Old Dutch: filo
- Middle Dutch: vele
  - Dutch: veel
Old High German: filu, vilu, filo, fila, vili
- Middle High German: vil, vile
  - Alemannic German: viel
    Swabian: viel
  - Bavarian: vui, vei, vii
    Cimbrian: vil, viil, biil
    Viennese: vü
  - German: viel
  - Luxembourgish: vill
  - Yiddish: פֿיל (fil)

References

Bremmer, Rolf (2005) “Old Frisian fule and felo "Much; Many": An Idiosyncracy in Germanic and Frisian Perspective”, in NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, volumes 46-47, →DOI, pages 31–40.

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[1] Bremmer, Rolf (2005) “Old Frisian fule and felo "Much; Many": An Idiosyncracy in Germanic and Frisian Perspective”, in NOWELE: North-Western European Language Evolution, volumes 46-47, →DOI, pages 31–40.