Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/plaggą

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plakkju
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

  • *plakką, *plakkô

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a borrowing from an unknown pre-Germanic, but possibly Indo-European, substrate language in which the p has not yet undergone Grimm's law, and distantly related to *flahaną (“to flay, skin”) or *flehtaną (“to weave, plait”).[1]

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈplɑɡ.ɡɑ̃/

Noun

*plaggą n

  1. a piece of cloth or fabric
  2. a patch

Inflection

Declension of *plaggą (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *plaggą *plaggō
vocative *plaggą *plaggō
accusative *plaggą *plaggō
genitive *plaggas, *plaggis *plaggǫ̂
dative *plaggai *plaggamaz
instrumental *plaggō *plaggamiz

Descendants

  • Old English: *plæcca; *plecc
  • Old Frisian: *plakka
    • Saterland Frisian: Plakke, Plak
    • West Frisian: plak
  • Old Saxon: *plakko; *plekkia
    • Middle Low German: plagge; placke; plekke, plecke, plek
      • Low German: Plagge, Plack, Plak, Plakke; Plek
      • → German: Plagge
  • Old Dutch: *plakko; *plekka
  • Old High German: *phlacko, *phlaggo, (Central German) *plaggo
    • Middle High German: pflacke, placke
  • Old Norse: plagg

References

  1. ^ van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “plag”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute
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