ᛖᚲ

Proto-Norse

Alternative forms

ᚴ and ᚳ are younger graphic variants of k, but do not indicate any change in pronunciation.

  • ᛖᚲᚨ (eka), ᛖᚴᛡ (ekᴀ)
  • -ᚲᚨ (-ka), -ᚳᚨ (-ka), -ᚴᛡ (-kᴀ)enclitic

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm.

Among the earliest attestations of the pronoun is the inscription on the 2nd-4th century Lindholm amulet, which also contains a postpositive, perhaps clitic, form of the pronoun in ᚺᚨᛏᛖᚳᚨ (hateka /⁠haitē’ka⁠/, I am called). For the forms with final -a, see ᛖᚲᚨ (eka).

Pronoun

ᛖᚲ (ek)

  1. I
    • c. 250–450, inscription on the Tune stone:
      ᛖᚲᚹᛁᚹᚨᛉᚨᚠᛏᛖᚱᚹᛟᛞᚢᚱᛁᛞᛖ / []
      ekwiwaʀafterwoduride / []
      I, Wiwaz, after Woduridaz / []
    • c. 425, inscription on the Golden Horns of Gallehus:
      ᛖᚲᚺᛚᛖᚹᚨᚷᚨᛊᛏᛁᛉ᛬ᚺᛟᛚᛏᛁᛃᚨᛉ᛬ᚺᛟᚱᚾᚨ᛬ᛏᚨᚹᛁᛞᛟ᛬
      ekhlewagastiʀ:holtijaʀ:horna:tawido:
      I, Hlewagastiz Holtijaz, made the horn
    • c. 250-450, inscription on the Hogganvik runestone:
      ᛖᚲᚾᚨᚢᛞᛁᚷᚨᛋᛏᛁᛉ / []
      eknaudigastiʀ / []
      I, Naudigastiz, / [] [1]

Descendants

  • Old Norse: ek, iakOld East Norse, -kenclitic
    • Icelandic: eg, ég
    • Faroese: eg, jeg
    • Norn: eg
    • Norwegian: ej, é, eig, í, æg, æj, æ, je, jæj (dialectal)
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: eg
    • Jamtish: jeg
    • Dalian: ik, ig
      • Elfdalian: ig
    • Old Swedish: iak, iæk, iag, iagh, iach (late), ᛁᛆᚴ, ᛁᛅᚴ (Runic)
    • Old Danish: iak, iæk, iægh, æk, ak
      • Danish: jeg, a, æ, ja, (dialectal)
        • Norwegian Bokmål: jeg
      • Scanian: jağ
      • Jutish: æ
    • Old Gutnish: iek

References

  1. ^ James E. Knirk, Runic inscription from Hogganvik, Mandal, Vest-Agder (2009) (preliminary report), 27 October 2009