Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/krōk

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

From Proto-Germanic *krōkaz (“bend, hook”).

Noun

*krōk m

hook

Declension

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*krōk
Genitive	*krōkas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*krōk	krōkō, krōkōs
Accusative	*krōk	*krōkā
Genitive	*krōkas	*krōkō
Dative	*krōkē	*krōkum
Instrumental	*krōku	*krōkum

Derived terms

*krōkōn

Descendants

Old English: *crōc
- Middle English: crok, croke
  - Scots: cruke, creuk, crewk, cruik
  - English: crook
  - → Irish: crúca
Old Dutch: *kruok
- Middle Dutch: croec
→ Vulgar Latin: *crōcus, *crōca
- Old French: croce, croc, croche
  - Middle French: croche
    - French: croche
      - → Catalan: corxa
      - → Occitan: cròcha
  - Norman: cro (Jèrriais)
  - Walloon: crotche
  - → Middle English: croche
    - English: croche
  - ⇒ Old French: crochet, crochette, croket (diminutive)
    - Middle French: crochet
      - French: crochet, crochée
        → Catalan: corxera, corxea
        
        → English: crochet
        
        → Spanish: croché, corchea
        
        Portuguese: crochet, crochê, croché, colcheia
    - Walloon: crotchèt
  - ⇒ Old French: acrocher, accrocher, encrocher
    - Middle French: accrocher, acrocher, acrochier, accrochier
      - Middle French: accrocher
    - Walloon: acrotchî, acrotchi, acrotcher, acrotchè
    - → Middle English: acrochen
- Piedmontese: cròc
- Sicilian: croccu
- Medieval Latin: croccus