Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bikjǭ

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 *bikjaną (“to thrust, attack”) (compare Old Norse bikkja (“plunge into water”), Dutch bikken (“to hack”), Old High German bicchen (“to stab, attack”), Old English becca (“a beck, pick, pick-axe, mattock”)), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰeg- (“to smash”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbik.jɔ̃ː/

Noun

*bikjǭ f

bitch (female dog)
Synonyms: *tauhǭ, *tibō, *tīkō

Inflection

Declension of *bikjǭ (ōn-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*bikjǭ	*bikjōniz
vocative	*bikjǭ	*bikjōniz
accusative	*bikjōnų	*bikjōnunz
genitive	*bikjōniz	*bikjōnǫ̂
dative	*bikjōni	*bikjōmaz
instrumental	*bikjōnē	*bikjōmiz

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *bikkjā
- Old English: biċċe, biċe, biċġe
  - Middle English: bicche, beche, biche, bycche, byche, bikk, buche
    - English: bitch
      - → Dutch: bitch
      - →? German: Betze, Bätze, Petze
      - → French: bitch
    - Scots: bitch
  - → Old French: biche (Anglo-Norman)
    - ⇒ Middle French: bichon
      - French: bichon
        → English: bichon
Old Norse: bikkja f, bikki m
- Icelandic: bikkja
- Faroese: bikkja
- Norwegian Bokmål: bikkje
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bikkje
- Old Swedish: bikia
  - Swedish: bycka
  - >? Swedish: -bigga in argbigga
- Old Danish: bikke
- → Scots: bik
- → Old French: *bique, biche
  - Middle French: bique, biche
    - French: bique, biche