Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/orgalā

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 and corrupted from Latin organa, organum.

Noun

*orgalā f

musical instrument

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*orgalā
Genitive	*orgalōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*orgalā	*orgalōn
Accusative	*orgalōn	*orgalōn
Genitive	*orgalōn	*orgalōnō
Dative	*orgalōn	orgalōm, orgalum
Instrumental	*orgalōn	orgalōm, orgalum

Descendants

Old English: orgel, orgol
- Middle English: orgel
Old Frisian: orgel
- West Frisian: oargel
Old Saxon: *orgela
- Middle Low German: orgel, orgele, örgel, oregel, orgal, orgule
  - → Danish: orgel
  - → Estonian: orel
  - → Icelandic: orgel
  - → Faroese: orgul
  - → Norwegian: orgel
  - → Swedish: orgel
    - → Finnish: urut
Old Dutch: *orgela
- Middle Dutch: orgele
  - Dutch: orgel
    - Afrikaans: orrel
    - → Indonesian: orgel
    - → Japanese: オルゴール (orugōru)
      - → Korean: 오르골 (oreugol)
    - → Papiamentu: òrgel, òru
    - → Sranan Tongo: orgu
Old High German: orgela, orgala, argela
- Middle High German: orgele
  - Alemannic German: Oorgele
  - German: Orgel
  - Luxembourgish: Uergel
- → Macedonian: оргула (orgula)
- → Serbo-Croatian:
  Cyrillic script: оргуље
  
  Latin script: orgulje
- → Slovene: orgle