Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/sulī

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 *swel-, *sel- (“piece of wood; beam, post, balk, board, threshold, sill”). Cognate with Lithuanian šelmuõ (“apex, roof, ridge”), Latin silva (“wood, forest”), Latin solum (“ground, floor, sole, bottom”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈsu.liː/

Noun

*sulī f

balk; bar; threshold; sill

Inflection

ī/jō-stemDeclension of *sulī (ī/jō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*sulī	*suljôz
vocative	*sulī	*suljôz
accusative	*suljǭ	*suljōz
genitive	*suljōz	*suljǫ̂
dative	*suljōi	*suljōmaz
instrumental	*suljō	*suljōmiz

Synonyms

*stuþilaz

Related terms

*selmô
*swalī/*swilī

Descendants

Old English: syl, syll
- Middle English: sylle, sülle, selle, sille
  - Scots: sil, sill
  - English: sill
- → Latin: silla
Old Frisian: *selle
- West Frisian: sille
Old Saxon: *sul, *sulli
- Middle Low German: sul, sülle, sille
  - Low German: Sull, Sülle
Old Dutch: *sulla
- Middle Dutch: sulle, sille
  - Dutch: zulle
Old Norse: syll
- Icelandic: syll, sylla
- Faroese: syll
- Norwegian: syll
- Old Swedish: syl
  - Swedish: syll
- Danish: syld
- Westrobothnian: syll, sill, syill, syyill, sööll, syyll
Gothic: *𐍃𐌿𐌻𐌹 (*suli) (in derivatives)

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