Wal

Senso (Inglese)

whale

Concetti

balena

🐳

balene

cetaceo

rorqual

osso di balena

sinonimi

Walfisch

🐳

Delfin

Delphin

🐬

Cetacea

Zetazeen

Traduzioni

whale

🐳

baleine

🐳

ballena

🐳

baleia

🐳

walvis

🐳

balina

🐳

φάλαινα

balena

🐳

balaena

cetáceo

balîna

🐳

حوت

🐟

hûf

neheng hût

Pronunciato come (IPA)

/vaːl/

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da tedesco medio alto: -

Ereditato da tedesco antico alto: wal

Affine inglese: whale

Affine islandese: hvalur

Affine danese: hval

Affine svedese: val

Affine olandese: walvis

Affine basso tedesco: Waalfisch

In summary

The root descends from Middle High German and Old High German wal, from Proto-West Germanic *hwal, from Proto-Germanic *hwalaz, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)kʷálos (“sheatfish”). Cognates include English whale, German Low German Waal, Icelandic hvalur, Danish hval, Swedish val.
Although the simplex root also existed in earlier historical stages of German, Grimm claims that the simplex had fallen out of used by Early New High German and was used exclusively in the compounds such as Walfisch and Narwal. The simplex later reappeared in the course of the 19th century, at first in the domain of scientific literature, as a back-formation from Walfisch. Compare also Dutch walvis, Low German Waalfisch.