Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/felt

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

Derived from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, hide”).^[1]

An alternative theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *peld- (“something beaten or compressed; felt”), from *pel- (“to beat; push; move; drive”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*felt n

felt

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*felt
Genitive	*feltas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*felt	*feltu
Accusative	*felt	*feltu
Genitive	*feltas	*feltō
Dative	*feltē	*feltum
Instrumental	*feltu	*feltum

Descendants

Old English: felt
- Middle English: felt, felte, feltte, feelte
  - English: felt
  - Scots: felt
Old Frisian: *filt
- Saterland Frisian: Filt
- West Frisian: filt
Old Saxon: filt
- Middle Low German: vilt
  - German Low German: Filt
  - Plautdietsch: Filt
  - → Danish: filt
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: filt
  - → Norwegian Nynorsk: filt
  - → Swedish: filt (“blanket”)
    - → Finnish: viltti
Old Dutch: *filt
- Middle Dutch: vilt
  - Dutch: vilt
Old High German: filz
- Middle High German: vilz
  - German: Filz
    - → Saterland Frisian: Fils
    - → Hungarian: filc
    - → Serbo-Croatian: fȉlc
→ Latin: filtrum (see there for further descendants)

References

^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*fellan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 97

[1] Vladimir Orel (2003) “*fellan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 97

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