Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/alinabugô

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From *alinō (“ell, ulna, forearm”) +‎ *bugô (“bend, bow”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.in.bu.ɣɔːː/

Noun

*alinabugô m

elbow

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *alinabugô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*alinabugô	*alinabuganiz
vocative	*alinabugô	*alinabuganiz
accusative	*alinabuganų	*alinabuganunz
genitive	*alinabuginiz	*alinabuganǫ̂
dative	*alinabugini	*alinabugammaz
instrumental	*alinabuginē	*alinabugammiz

Descendants

Old English: elnboga, elboga
- Middle English: *elboghe, *elboȝe, elbowe
  - English: elbow
  - Scots: elbuck (earlier elbok)
  - Yola: helbough, helboge
Old Frisian: *elboga
- Saterland Frisian: Älbooge
Old Saxon: *elinbogo
- Middle Low German: ellebōge
  - German Low German: Ellebage
  - Plautdietsch: Alboagen
Old Dutch: *elinbogo
- Middle Dutch: ellenbōge, ellenbōghe
  - Dutch: elleboog, ellenboog
    - Afrikaans: elmboog
    - → Papiamentu: èlebog, èlembog, elleboog
Old High German: elinbogo
- Middle High German: elenboge
  - German: Ellenboge, Ellbogen, Ellenbogen
  - Luxembourgish: Ielebou
  - Vilamovian: ełböga
  - Yiddish: עלנבויגן (elnboygn)
Old Norse: ǫlnbogi, alnbogi, albogi, ǫlbogi
- Icelandic: olnbogi, olbogi
- Faroese: albogi
- Norwegian:
  - Bokmål: albue
  - Norwegian Nynorsk: olboge
- Old Swedish: *alnboghi, alboghi
  - Swedish: almboge, armbåge
- Old Danish: almboghæ
  - Danish: albue, almbue, armbue
- Gutnish: albuge, armbuge
- Elfdalian: abugi
- Scanian: alnbuğe