Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/mīliju

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

Borrowed from Latin mīlle passūs (“Roman mile”, literally “thousand paces”).

Noun

*mīliju f

1. mile

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*mīliju
Genitive	*mīlijā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*mīliju	*mīlijō
Accusative	*mīlijā	*mīlijā
Genitive	*mīlijā	*mīlijō
Dative	*mīlijē	*mīlijōm, *mīlijum
Instrumental	*mīliju	*mīlijōm, *mīlijum

Descendants

• Old English: mīl
  • Middle English: myle, mile
    • Scots: mile
    • English: mile
• Old Frisian: *mīl, *mile
  • Saterland Frisian: Miele
  • West Frisian: mile
• Old Saxon: *mīlia
  • Middle Low German: mīle
    • Low German: Mile
• Old Dutch: *mīla
  • Middle Dutch: mile
    • Dutch: mijl
      • Afrikaans: myl
      • Negerhollands: miel
      • English: mijl
      • → Indonesian: mil
      • → Papiamentu: my (dated)
• Old High German: mīla, mīlla
  • Middle High German: mīle, mīl
    • German: Meile
    • Luxembourgish: Meil
    • Yiddish: מײַל (mayl)