Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skupą

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

Nominal formation related to *skuppōną (“to mock, scoff”), of uncertain further origin; see there for more.[1]

Noun

*skupą n

  1. mockery, joking
  2. cheating, deception, trickery
  3. poetry

Inflection

Declension of *skupą (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *skupą *skupō
vocative *skupą *skupō
accusative *skupą *skupō
genitive *skupas, *skupis *skupǫ̂
dative *skupai *skupamaz
instrumental *skupō *skupamiz

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *skop
    • >? Old Frisian: skof
      • West Frisian: schof (obsolete)
      • →? Middle English: skoffe, scof (equally possibly borrowed from Old Danish)
    • Old Dutch: *scop
    • ⇒ Proto-West Germanic: *skop m (“poet”)
      • Old English: sċop, sċeop
        • → English: scop (learned)
      • Old Saxon: *skop
        • ⇒ Old Saxon: skoplīko (adverb)
      • Old High German: skopf, scoph
        • Middle High German: schopf, schof
  • Old Norse: skop
    • Icelandic: skop
    • >? Old Danish: skof, skuf

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*skupp/bōn- 2 w.v. 'to mock'”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 450-1: “*skup(p)a- / *skuffa-”
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