Proto-Germanic *hwalaz

→ English whale (inherited)

→ Old English hwæl (inherited)

→ German Wal (inherited)

→ German Wels (inherited)

→ German Pottwal (mention)

→ Middle English whale (inherited)

→ Finnish valas (borrowed)

→ Faroese hvalur (inherited)

→ Old Swedish hval (inherited)

→ Icelandic hvalur (inherited)

→ Luxembourgish Wal (derived)

→ Latvian valis (mention)

→ Norwegian Bokmål hval (inherited)

→ Dutch wal (inherited)

→ Dutch walvis (derived)

→ Norwegian Nynorsk kval (derived)

→ Old Norse hvalr (inherited)

→ Polish wal (derived)

→ Old Prussian kalis (cognate)

→ Scots whaul (inherited)

→ Northern Sami fális (derived)

→ Swedish val (inherited)