Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/saku

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 *sakō. Equivalent to *sakan (“to quarrel, argue”) +‎ *-u.

Noun

*saku f^[1]

accusation, charge
case

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*saku
Genitive	*sakā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*saku	*sakō
Accusative	*sakā	*sakā
Genitive	*sakā	*sakō
Dative	*sakē	sakōm, sakum
Instrumental	*saku	sakōm, sakum

Derived terms

*sakōn

Descendants

Old English: sacu
- Middle English: sake, sak, sac
  - Scots: sak, saik
  - English: sake
Old Frisian: sake, seke, sek
- Saterland Frisian: sec
  - Saterland Frisian: Seeke
- West Frisian: saak
Old Saxon: saka
- Middle Low German: sake
  - Low German: Sake
    - German Low German: Saak
      - Mecklenburgisch-Vorpommersch: Saak f, Såk
      - Westphalian:
        Paderbornisch: Sake f
Old Dutch: saka
- Middle Dutch: sāke
  - Dutch: zaak
    - Afrikaans: saak
Old High German: sahha, sacha
- Middle High German: sache, sach
  - Bavarian: Såch
  - German: Sache
  - Luxembourgish: Saach
  - Yiddish: זאַך (zakh)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 195: “PWGmc *saku”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 195: “PWGmc *saku”

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