Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ahslō

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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

From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eḱs- (“axis”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑx.slɔː/

Noun

*ahslō f [1]

shoulder
Synonym: *skuldrô

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *ahslō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*ahslō	*ahslôz
vocative	*ahslō	*ahslôz
accusative	*ahslǭ	*ahslōz
genitive	*ahslōz	*ahslǫ̂
dative	*ahslōi	*ahslōmaz
instrumental	*ahslō	*ahslōmiz

Descendants

Old English: eaxl, eaxel
- Middle English: axil, axle
  - English: axle
  - Scots: aixle, exle
Old Frisian: axle, axele
- Saterland Frisian: ascle
- Middle Dutch: ocsele (possibly, see lemma)
  - Dutch: oksel
Old Dutch: *assala
- Middle Dutch: assele
  - Dutch: assel
Old High German: ahsala
- Middle High German: ahsel
  - Cimbrian: aksela, àksala, aksl, àksel
  - German: Achsel
  - Yiddish: אַקסל‎ (aksl)
Old Norse: ǫxl
- Icelandic: öxl
- Faroese: øksl
- Norn: akkel
- Old Swedish: axl
  - Swedish: axel
    - Elfdalian: aksel
- Old Danish: axæl
  - Danish: aksel
- Elfdalian: aksul
- Gutnish: axl
- Scanian: áğsel

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ahslō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 6

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ahslō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 6