Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aljaz

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This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *ályos.

Pronunciation

Determiner

*aljaz[1]

  1. other, another, else
    Synonym: *anþeraz

Inflection


Descendants

Among most descendants, only the genitive survives as an adverb *aljas (other, else), or in other formations (*aljǭ (but), *aljalīkô (otherwise)) or compounds, e.g., *aljalandijaz ~ *alilandijaz ~ *aljalandiją (foreign country).

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    • English: else
  • Old Frisian: elles, ellis (else, besides)
  • Old Saxon: eli-
  • Old Dutch: eli-, ele-
    • Middle Dutch: el, els (other)
  • Old High German: elles, alles
  • Old Norse: ella, ellar "or" (< *aljǭ)
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    • Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
    • Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=.
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    • Old Swedish: ælla, ællar (or)
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  • Lua error in Module:etymology/templates/descendant at line 287: You specified a term in 4= and not one in 3=. You probably meant to use t= to specify a gloss instead. If you intended to specify two terms, put the second term in 3=., 𐌰𐌻𐌾𐌰 (alja, but, except) (< *aljǭ)

Further reading

  • Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*alja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 23