Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *fallanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_fallaną
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Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series 11)GuusKroonenBrill2013Cadere e abbattere in indoeuropeo: Sull’etimologia di tedesco fallen, latino aboleō e greco ἀπόλλυμιSergioNeriInstitut für Sprachwissenschaft der Universität Innsbruck2007ἀπόλλῡμιto completely destroy; to kill; to slay*h2epoDELETEaboleōto destroy, efface, terminatepùltito fall
verbStrong class 7cto fallNeri 2007 explains this and several cognates as a proposed compound of Proto-Indo-European *h2epo (‘off, away’) + root *h3elh1- (‘to fall, to collapse; to destroy/be destroyed’), with a nasal infix in Proto-Germanic: PIE *h2p-h3elh1-né- > pre-Germanic *polné- (via Osthoff’s Law) > Early Proto-Germanic *falle/o- (via Kluge’s Law) Kroonen 2013. Compare Latin aboleō (‘to destroy, efface, terminate’), Ancient Greek ἀπόλλῡμι (apóllūmi, ‘to completely destroy; to kill; to slay’), and Lithuanian pùlti (‘to fall’).