Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fak

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

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Etymology

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Presumably from Proto-Germanic *faką, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (to fix, fasten), with the intermediatory meaning of fixed divisions, compare Latin pāgus (division, district).[1][2]

Noun

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*fak n[1][3]

  1. division, compartment
  2. period, interval

Inflection

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Neuter a-stem
Singular
Nominative *fak
Genitive *fakas
Singular Plural
Nominative *fak *faku
Accusative *fak *faku
Genitive *fakas *fakō
Dative *fakē *fakum
Instrumental *faku *fakum

Descendants

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  • Old English: fæc, fec
  • Old Frisian: fak, fek
    • Saterland Frisian: Fäk
    • West Frisian: fek
  • Old Saxon: fac, fak
    • Middle Low German: vak
      • German Low German: Fack
      • Danish: fag
        • Icelandic: fag
      • Norwegian:
        • Norwegian Bokmål: fag
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: fag
      • Swedish: fack
  • Old Dutch: *fak
    • Middle Dutch: vac
  • Old High German: fah

References

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  1. 1.0 1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Fach”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 197:wg. *faka-
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*faka-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 124
  3. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 194:PWGmc *fak