Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/felt

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

Etymology

Derived from Proto-Germanic *fellą (“skin, hide”).

An alternative theory derives the word from Proto-Indo-European *peld- (“something beaten or compressed; felt”), from *pel- (“to beat; push; move; drive”). (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?)

Noun

*felt n

1. felt

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*felt, *felta
Genitive	*feltas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*felt, *felta	*feltu
Accusative	*felt, *felta	*feltu
Genitive	*feltas	*feltō
Dative	*feltē	*feltum
Instrumental	*feltu	*feltum

Descendants

• Old English: felt
  • Middle English: felt, felte, feltte, feelte
    • English: felt
    • Scots: felt
• Old Frisian: *filt
  • Saterland Frisian: Filt
  • West Frisian: filt
• Old Saxon: filt
  • Middle Low German: vilt
    • German Low German: Filt
    • Plautdietsch: Filt
    • → Danish: filt
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: filt
    • → Norwegian Nynorsk: filt
    • → Swedish: filt (“blanket”)
      • → Finnish: viltti
• Old Dutch: *filt
  • Middle Dutch: vilt
    • Dutch: vilt
• Old High German: filz
  • Middle High German: vilz
    • German: Filz
      • → Saterland Frisian: Fils
      • → Hungarian: filc
      • → Serbo-Croatian: fȉlc
• → Latin: filtrum (see there for further descendants)