Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wrekaną

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 *wreg- (“track, hunt, follow”). Cognate with Hittite ūrki- (“track”), Tocharian B werke (“to chase, hunt”), Sanskrit व्रजति (vrájati, “to go, walk, move”), and perhaps Latin urgēre (“to be urgent”), Proto-Slavic *vèrťi (“to throw, cast”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈwre.kɑ.nɑ̃/

Verb

*wrekaną

1. to pursue, to drive out

Inflection

Conjugation of *wrekaną (strong class 5)

	active voice			passive voice
present tense	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*wrekō	*wrekaų	—	*wrekai	?
2nd singular	*wrikizi	*wrekaiz	*wrek	*wrekazai	*wrekaizau
3rd singular	*wrikidi	*wrekai	*wrekadau	*wrekadai	*wrekaidau
1st dual	*wrekōz	*wrekaiw	—	—	—
2nd dual	*wrekadiz	*wrekaidiz	*wrekadiz	—	—
1st plural	*wrekamaz	*wrekaim	—	*wrekandai	*wrekaindau
2nd plural	*wrikid	*wrekaid	*wrikid	*wrekandai	*wrekaindau
3rd plural	*wrekandi	*wrekain	*wrekandau	*wrekandai	*wrekaindau
past tense	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*wrak	*wrēkį̄
2nd singular	*wraht	*wrēkīz
3rd singular	*wrak	*wrēkī
1st dual	*wrēkū	*wrēkīw
2nd dual	*wrēkudiz	*wrēkīdiz
1st plural	*wrēkum	*wrēkīm
2nd plural	*wrēkud	*wrēkīd
3rd plural	*wrēkun	*wrēkīn
	present	past
participles	*wrekandz	*wrekanaz

Derived terms

• *frawrekaną
• *gawrekaną

Related terms

• *wrakjaną
• *wrakjô
• *wrēkį̄
• *wrēkiz
• *wrēkō

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *wrekan
  • Old English: wrecan
    • Middle English: wreken
      • English: wreak
      • Scots: wreke, wrek, wreik
  • Old Frisian: wreka
    • West Frisian: wrekke
  • Old Saxon: wrekan
    • Middle Low German: wrēken
  • Old Dutch: *wrekan
    • Middle Dutch: wrēken
      • Dutch: wreken
        • Afrikaans: wreek
  • Old High German: rehhan, wrehhan
    • Middle High German: rechen
      • German: rächen
        • → Luxembourgish: rächen
• Old Norse: vreka, reka
  • Icelandic: reka
  • Faroese: reka
  • Norwegian: reke
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: reka
  • Old Swedish: vræka, rwæka
    • Swedish: vräka, räka (dialectal)
  • Danish: vrage
  • Gutnish: bräkä
• Gothic: 𐍅𐍂𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 (wrikan)