Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/alu

Etymology
From earlier *álut, from Pre-Germanic *álud, from. Cognate with 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  beer, ale

Inflection
The nominative singular lacks the final consonant of the stem. This preserves an old sound change from late PIE, where word-final *-t becomes *-d. According to Grimm's Law, *t shifted to *þ, and *d shifted to *t. Following this, word-final *-t was lost regularly.