Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/aduk

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

Unknown; possibly borrowed from Late Latin educus, odecus, odicus (“dwarf elder”), contaminated from Latin ebulum by Gaulish odocos (“dwarf elder”),[1][2] or perhaps metathesized from Latin actē (“dwarf elder”).[3]

Noun

*aduk m

  1. dwarf elder, danewort

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *aduk
Genitive *adukas
Singular Plural
Nominative *aduk *adukō, *adukōs
Accusative *aduk *adukā
Genitive *adukas *adukō
Dative *adukē *adukum
Instrumental *aduku *adukum

Descendants

  • Old English: atih
  • Old Saxon: aduk, adik
    • Middle Low German: adik, adek, adeke, adech, adich, attich, attik
      • German Low German: Åk
  • Old Dutch: *aduk
    • Middle Dutch: adic, adec
  • Old High German: atuh m, atihho, aticho m
    • Middle High German: atech, atich
      • German: Attich

References

  1. ^ Lloyd, Albert L., Lühr, Rosemarie (1988) Etymologisches Wörterbuch des Althochdeutschen‎[1] (in German), Göttingen/Zürich: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, →ISBN, pages 389-91
  2. ^ Schrijver, Peter C. H. (1991) The reflexes of the Proto-Indo-European laryngeals in Latin (Leiden studies in Indo-European; 2), Amsterdam, Atlanta: Rodopi, →ISBN, page 35
  3. ^ Vercoullie, Jozef (1925) “Hadik”, in Beknopt etymologisch woordenboek der Nederlandsche taal (in Dutch), 's-Gravenhage: Nijhoff, page 102
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