Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/rādislī

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-Germanic

Etymology

(deprecated template usage)

From *rēdaną +‎ *-isliją.

Noun

*rādislī n

1. that which is guessed at; a riddle

Inflection

ī/jō-stemDeclension of *rādislī (ī/jō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*rādislī	*rādislijôz
vocative	*rādislī	*rādislijôz
accusative	*rādislijǭ	*rādislijōz
genitive	*rādislijōz	*rādislijǫ̂
dative	*rādislijōi	*rādislijōmaz
instrumental	*rādislijō	*rādislijōmiz

Descendants

• Old English: rǣdelse, rǣdels; rǣsele
  • Middle English: redels, redel, rydel, ridil
    • Scots: riddill, riddil
    • English: riddle
    • → Norn: ridl
• Old Saxon: rādisli, rādislo
  • Middle Low German: radelse, redelse, redelschen, redelszen
    • Low German: redelse, radelse
• Old Dutch: *rādisli, *rādsili
  • Middle Dutch: ratsele, raetsel; rādeles, rāles
    • Dutch: raadsel
      • Afrikaans: rasel, raaisel
• Old High German: rātisli, rātisla, rātilsa, *rātisal
  • Middle High German: ratsal, rǣtsel
    • German: Rätsel