Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bunkô

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

Alternative forms

  • ? *bungô

Etymology

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, tight, dense, plump”) (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) or *bʰe(n)g- (“to bend, bulge”); compare *bankô for the latter. Less likely related to Albanian bung (“sessile oak”), from Proto-Albanian *bunga, from *bʰewH- (“to grow”).[1] The alternation with *bung- in High German may be an old remnant of the original stem, if it is not simply a dialectal voicing assimilation.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈbuŋ.kɔːː/

Noun

*bunkô m

  1. bump, lump
  2. heap, pile
  3. crowd

Declension

Declension of *bunkô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *bunkô *bunkaniz
vocative *bunkô *bunkaniz
accusative *bunkanų *bunkanunz
genitive *bunkiniz *bunkanǫ̂
dative *bunkini *bunkammaz
instrumental *bunkinē *bunkammiz

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *bunkō, *bungō
    • Old English: *bunca; *bunċen (< *bunkkīn)
      • Middle English: bunche, bonche
        • English: bunch (partially)
        • ⇒ Middle English: bunchy, bonchy
          • ⇒ Middle English: bunchines (“bump, hump, hunch”)
    • Old Frisian: bunka
    • Old Saxon: *bunko
    • Old Dutch: *bunko
    • >? Old High German: bungo
  • Old Norse: bunki

References

  1. ^ Vladimir Orel (2003) “*ƀunkōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 62
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