Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/plaggą

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plakkju

This Proto-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-Germanic

Alternative forms

• *plakką, *plakkô

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a borrowing from an unknown pre-Germanic, but possibly Indo-European, substrate language in which the p has not yet undergone Grimm's law, and distantly related to *flahaną (“to flay, skin”) or *flehtaną (“to weave, plait”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈplɑɡ.ɡɑ̃/

Noun

*plaggą n

1. a piece of cloth or fabric
2. a patch

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *plaggą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*plaggą	*plaggō
vocative	*plaggą	*plaggō
accusative	*plaggą	*plaggō
genitive	*plaggas, *plaggis	*plaggǫ̂
dative	*plaggai	*plaggamaz
instrumental	*plaggō	*plaggamiz

Related terms

• *plagilaz
• *plajjaną
• *plakjō
• *plehtō

Descendants

• Old English: *plæcca; *plecc
  • Middle English: plack; plek, pleck; *placche, platch
    • Scots: platch
    • English: plack, pleck; platch, patch
• Old Frisian: *plakka
  • Saterland Frisian: Plakke, Plak
  • West Frisian: plak
• Old Saxon: *plakko; *plekkia
  • Middle Low German: plagge; placke; plekke, plecke, plek
    • Low German: Plagge, Plack, Plak, Plakke; Plek
    • → German: Plagge
• Old Dutch: *plakko; *plekka
  • Middle Dutch: plagge; placke; plecke; placken
    • Dutch: plag; plak; plek
    • → Old French: plaquier, plaquer
      • Middle French: plaquer
        • French: plaquer
      • ⇒ Middle French: plaque
        • French: plaque
          • → English: plaque
    • →⇒ Old French: placard
      • Middle French: placard
        • French: placard
      • → Middle English: placard
        • English: placard
      • → Middle Dutch: placaerd, plackaet
        • → Dutch: plakkaat
    • → Medieval Latin: placca
      • → Italian: placca
    • → Scots: plak, plack
• Old High German: *phlacko, *phlaggo, (Central German) *plaggo
  • Middle High German: pflacke, placke
    • German: Placken
    • Luxembourgish: Plak, Plack (latter merged with French plaque)
      • ⇒ Luxembourgish: plakeg
• Old Norse: plagg
  • Icelandic: plagg
  • Faroese: plagg
  • Norwegian: plagg
  • Swedish: plagg
  • → Scots: plag