Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/muldō

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 *melh₂- (“to grind, crush”)^[1]

Noun

*muldō f

mould
soil, dirt

Inflection

Declension of *muldō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*muldō	*muldôz
vocative	*muldō	*muldôz
accusative	*muldǭ	*muldōz
genitive	*muldōz	*muldǫ̂
dative	*muldōi	*muldōmaz
instrumental	*muldō	*muldōmiz

Derived terms

*muldijaną

Descendants

Old English: molde
- Middle English: molde
  - English: mold, mould, mool
  - Scots: muild, moud
Old Dutch: *molda
- Middle Dutch: moude
  - Dutch: moude
Old High German: molta
- Middle High German: molte f, molt m
  - German: Molte, Molde (Central Germany) (obsolete or dialectal)
Old Norse: mold
- Faroese: mold
- Icelandic: mold
- Norwegian Nynorsk: mold
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: mold
- Old Swedish: muld
  - Swedish: mull
- Old Danish: muld
  - Danish: muld
    - Norwegian Bokmål: muld m or f
Gothic: 𐌼𐌿𐌻𐌳𐌰 (mulda)
→ Proto-Finnic: *multa

References

^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “moude”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

[1] van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “moude”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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