Reconstruction:Old High German/link
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Old High German
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Attested only as the noun linka (“the left hand”). Kroonen derives the word (based on its descendants) from Proto-Germanic *hlinkaz, which he connects to *hlankaz (“flexible; slim”).[1]
Adjective
[edit]*link
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 228-9