Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fak
Proto-West Germanic
editEtymology
editPresumably 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
editInflection
editNeuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *fak | |
Genitive | *fakas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *fak | *faku |
Accusative | *fak | *faku |
Genitive | *fakas | *fakō |
Dative | *fakē | *fakum |
Instrumental | *faku | *fakum |
Descendants
editReferences
edit- ↑ 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-”
- ^ 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
- ^ 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”
Categories:
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *peh₂ǵ-
- Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Germanic
- Proto-West Germanic terms derived from Proto-Germanic
- Proto-West Germanic terms inherited from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-West Germanic lemmas
- Proto-West Germanic nouns
- Proto-West Germanic neuter nouns
- gmw-pro:Time
- Proto-West Germanic neuter a-stem nouns