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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.
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *jekô (“piece of ice”) + *-ulaz (“diminutive suffix”).[1]
Pronunciation
Noun
*jekulaz m
- icicle
Inflection
Declension of *jekulaz (masculine a-stem)
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singular
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plural
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| nominative
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*jekulaz
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*jekulōz, *jekulōs
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| vocative
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*jekul
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*jekulōz, *jekulōs
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| accusative
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*jekulą
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*jekulanz
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| genitive
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*jekulas, *jekulis
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*jekulǫ̂
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| dative
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*jekulai
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*jekulamaz
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| instrumental
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*jekulō
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*jekulamiz
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Alternative reconstructions
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *jikil, *jekul
- Old English: ġiċel, ġieċel, ġeċilae, ġeċile, *ġyċel, *ġecol, *ġeocol, *ġicol
- Old Frisian: itsil, itzil, etzil
- Old Saxon: *jukil
- Middle Low German: jȫkel, jekel, jokel, jöckel, jockel, jȫkele, jokele, jöckele, jockele, jukel, guckel m or f (merged with descendant of Old Saxon gikilla f)
- Low German: (Dithmarscher) Jäkel
- North Frisian: jöckel, jögel
- → West Frisian: jûkel, (Schiermonnikoog) jokel
- → Dutch: jeukel (dialectal)
- Old Norse: jǫkull
- Icelandic: jökull
- Faroese: jøkul, jøkil
- Norwegian Nynorsk: jøkul, jøkle; (dialectal) jukul
- Old Swedish: īkil
- Swedish: ickel (dialectal)
- Old Danish: ikæl, (hus)ikæl
References
- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*jeka(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 273: “cf. ON jǫkull m. 'icicle; glacier'”