Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/harjatogō

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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[edit]

Etymology[edit]

Suggested to be a calque of Ancient Greek στρατηγός (stratēgós) (from στρατός (stratós, army) +‎ ἄγω (ágō, to lead) +‎ -ος (-os)), from *hari (army) +‎ *togō (leader) (compare *teuhan (to lead, pull)).[1][2] Alternatively inherited from Proto-Germanic *harjatugô, if Old Norse hertogi isn't borrowed from Middle Low German[3].

Noun[edit]

*harjatogō m

  1. army leader, commander, general

Inflection[edit]

Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *harjatogō
Genitive *harjatogini, *harjatogan
Singular Plural
Nominative *harjatogō *harjatogan
Accusative *harjatogan *harjatogan
Genitive *harjatogini, *harjatogan *harjatoganō
Dative *harjatogini, *harjatogan *harjatogum
Instrumental *harjatogini, *harjatogan *harjatogum

Alternative reconstructions[edit]

Descendants[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Friedrich Kluge (1989) chapter 307, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page Herzog:*harja-tug(ōn)
  2. ^ Boutkan, Dirk, Siebinga, Sjoerd (2005) “hertoga”, in Old Frisian Etymological Dictionary (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 1), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 168
  3. ^ Hellquist, Elof (1922) “hertig”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary]‎[1] (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 234
  4. ^ Ringe, Donald (2006) From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎[2], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 218:WGmc *hari-togō ‘commander of a (late Roman) mobile Weld force, dux’