Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/halh

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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

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Etymology

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Probably inherited from Proto-Germanic *halhaz, from Proto-Indo-European *ḱólkos, from *ḱel-.

Noun

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*halh m

  1. (Anglo-Frisian Germanic) a depression or elevation, an area of land that differs in elevation from what it surrounds.

Inflection

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Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *halh
Genitive *halhas
Singular Plural
Nominative *halh *halhō, *halhōs
Accusative *halh *halhā
Genitive *halhas *halhō
Dative *halhē *halhum
Instrumental *halhu *halhum

Derived terms

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Descendants

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  • Old English: healh, halh
    • Middle English: hale, hal (from dative hēale, but with short vowel of the nominative levelled in)
      • English: hale (dialectal)
    • Northern Middle English: *halgh, *halch (attested in placenames)
  • Old Frisian: *halch

References

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  • Stiles, Patrick V. (1997) “OE halh "slightly raised ground isolated by marsh"”, in Alexander Rumble, A. D. Mills, editors, Names, places and people : an onomastic miscellany in memory of John McNeal Dodgson, Stamford: Paul Watkins, →ISBN, →OCLC, pages 330–344