Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwerkō

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 *kwerraną (“to devour, glut”) +‎ *-kô (body part suffix) +‎ *-ō.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkʷer.kɔː/

Noun

*kwerkō f[1]

  1. throat

Inflection

Declension of *kwerkō (ō-stem)
singular plural
nominative *kwerkō *kwerkôz
vocative *kwerkō *kwerkôz
accusative *kwerkǭ *kwerkōz
genitive *kwerkōz *kwerkǫ̂
dative *kwerkōi *kwerkōmaz
instrumental *kwerkō *kwerkōmiz

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *kwerku
    • Old Saxon: *querka
      • Middle Low German: querke, quarke
    • Old High German: querka, querkala, querkela
  • Proto-Norse: *ᚲᚹᛖᚱᚲᚢ (*kwerku)
    • Old Norse: kverk
      • Icelandic: kverk
      • Faroese: kvørkrar pl
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: kverk
      • Norwegian Bokmål: kverk
      • → Middle English: *querk
    • → Proto-Finnic: *kurkku (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*kwerkō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317
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