Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/froggō

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

Cognate with Old Norse frauðr, frauki (“frog”), both perhaps from Proto-Germanic n-stem paradigm *fraugô ~ *frukkaz, from pre-Proto-Germanic *prougʰ-ō ~ *prugʰ-nos,[1] from Proto-Indo-European *prewgʰ- (“to leap”), possibly extended from *prew- (“to jump”); compare Proto-Slavic *prygati (“to jump”), though Kroonen is skeptical of such a connection. See also Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”).[1]

Noun

*froggō m[1]

  1. frog
    Synonym: *frosk

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *froggō
Genitive *fruggini, *froggan
Singular Plural
Nominative *froggō *froggan
Accusative *froggan *froggan
Genitive *fruggini, *froggan *frogganō
Dative *fruggini, *froggan *froggum
Instrumental *fruggini, *froggan *froggum

Alternative reconstructions

  • *fruggjō

Descendants

  • Old English: frocga, frogga, froga
    • Middle English: frogge, vrogge, frugge
      • English: frog, frock (dialectal), frosk (dialectal), frosh (dialectal) (see there for further descendants)
      • Scots: frog, froig
      • → Welsh: broga
  • Old Saxon: *froggo, *fruggio
  • Old Dutch: *froggo
    • >? Middle Dutch: pogge, pog (possibly conflated with Middle Dutch padde (“toad”))
      • → West Frisian: pogge, pôge

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*frug/kkan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 156: “*frugō, gen. *frukkaz < *prúgʰ-ō ~ *prugʰ-n-ós; *fraukan-”
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