Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwerkō

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 Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour, eat”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʷer.kɔː/

Noun

*kwerkō f

1. throat

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *kwerkō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*kwerkō	*kwerkôz
vocative	*kwerkō	*kwerkôz
accusative	*kwerkǭ	*kwerkōz
genitive	*kwerkōz	*kwerkǫ̂
dative	*kwerkōi	*kwerkōmaz
instrumental	*kwerkō	*kwerkōmiz

Derived terms

• *kwirkijaną

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *kwerku
  • ⇒ Old Frisian: querka, quertza (verb)
    • North Frisian: querke, quirke
  • Old Saxon: *querka
    • Middle Low German: querke, quarke
    • ⇒ Middle Low German: querken (verb)
  • Old High German: querka, querkala, querkela
• Old Norse: kverk
  • Icelandic: kverk
  • Norwegian Bokmål: kverk
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: kverk
  • Faroese: kvørkrar (plural)
  • → Middle English: *querk
    • >? English: quirk
    • Scots: querk
• → Proto-Finnic: *kurkku (see there for further descendants)