Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/balkō
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom Proto-Germanic *balkô.
Noun
edit*balkō m[1]
Inflection
editMasculine an-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *balkō | |
Genitive | *balkini, *balkan | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *balkō | *balkan |
Accusative | *balkan | *balkan |
Genitive | *balkini, *balkan | *balkanō |
Dative | *balkini, *balkan | *balkum |
Instrumental | *balkini, *balkan | *balkum |
Alternative reconstructions
edit- *balk[2]
Descendants
edit- Old English: bælca, bealca
- Old Frisian: balka
- Old Saxon: balko
- Old Dutch: *balco
- Old High German: balko, balcho, palcho, balco
- Lombardic: palk
- → Italian: palco
- → Medieval Latin: balcō [c. 1040, Goscelin] (see there for further descendants)
References
edit- ^ Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “*balko”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch (in German), volumes 15/1: Germanismes: A–Bryman, page 35
- ^ Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (balc)