*atalaz

Reconstructed from Old English atol, atul, Old Norse atall, ǫtull, and Middle Dutch atel. The variation between *atalaz and variant *atulaz reflects disagreement over the medial vowel: Old Norse atall favors *-ala-, whereas Old English atul and Old Norse ǫtull favor *-ula- (de Vries 1977: 12, s.v. atall; Kluge 1899: §192; Kroonen 2013: 39; Orel 2003: 27). Probably an adjective in Germanic *-ala- ~ *-ula- formed from the root underlying *atjaną¹. It is sometimes projected back as pre-Germanic *h₃ed-olo-s, from Proto-Indo-European *h₃ed-, but the exact inherited formation is uncertain. Root cognates include Old Armenian ատեմ (atem), Ancient Greek ὀδύσσομαι (odússomai), and Latin ōdī (de Vaan 2008: 425; Kroonen 2013: 39, s.v. *atjan-; Rix et al. 2001: 296; Matasović 2009b: 11).