Eotol
Old English
Alternative forms
- Eatul
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic [Term?] and ultimately from Latin Italia (which itself was later borrowed into Old English as Italia, a doublet of this term). It appears not to be an Anglo-Saxon-era borrowing, as it shows the marks of a lengthy chain of vowel changes that can only be explained by a native evolution from a much earlier borrowing predating the Middle Ages. This etymology is incomplete. You can help Wiktionary by elaborating on the origins of this term. What happened here in terms of sound-changes, what are the exact intermediate steps? must it be traced to PGmc or merely PWGmc? It is clearly not a book-learned borrowing from some Latin text, but a native form borrowed much earlier.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈe͜o.tol/
Derived terms
- Eotolware
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