Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/auk

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 *h₂ew (away, again) + *ge (intensifier); compare Ancient Greek αὖ (, again), γε (ge, at least, at any rate), also found as Ancient Greek αὖγε (aûge).[1] But compare also Proto-Indo-European *h₂ewg-.

    Pronunciation

    • IPA(key): /ɑu̯k/

    Adverb

    *auk[1][2]

    1. also, too
    2. furthermore, in addition

    Descendants

    • Proto-West Germanic: *auk
      • Old English: ēac, ēk, ēcMercian, ǣac
        • Middle English: ek, eek, eke
          • Scots: eik, ek
          • English: eek, eke
          • Middle English: ekename
      • Old Frisian: āk, ocke
        • North Frisian:
          Föhr-Amrum: uk
        • Saterland Frisian: uk, ook
        • West Frisian: ek
      • Old Saxon: ōk
      • Old Dutch: ōk
        • Middle Dutch: ooc
          • Dutch: ook
            • Afrikaans: ook
            • Berbice Creole Dutch: oko
            • Jersey Dutch: ôk
            • Negerhollands: ook
            • Petjo: ook
            • Skepi Creole Dutch: oak
          • West Flemish: wok
      • Old High German: ouh
        • Middle High German: ouch
          • Alemannic German: au
          • Cimbrian: òch
          • Central Franconian:
          • German: auch
          • Rhine Franconian:
            • Pennsylvania German: aa
          • Yiddish: אויך (oykh)
    • Old Norse: auk, ok
      • Icelandic: auk, og
      • Faroese: og
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: og, au, aug; (dialectal) ok, auk, ug
        • Norwegian Bokmål: au
      • Jamtish: og
      • Elfdalian: og
      • Old Swedish: ok, oc, och, ogh
      • Old Danish: oc
        • Danish: og
          • Norwegian Bokmål: og
      • Middle English: oc, ok
        • Scots: okname, ockname
    • Gothic: 𐌰𐌿𐌺 (auk)

    Conjunction

    *auk[1]

    1. and
      Synonyms: *andi, *jahw
    2. but also

    See also

    References

    1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*auke”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 42
    2. ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 172:PGmc *auk