Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/anadrekō

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-Germanic

Etymology

From *anadz (“duck”) +‎ *rekô (“king, ruler, leader”).

Noun

*anadrekō m

1. male duck, drake

Inflection

ō-stemDeclension of *anadrekō (ō-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*anadrekō	*anadrekôz
vocative	*anadrekō	*anadrekôz
accusative	*anadrekǭ	*anadrekōz
genitive	*anadrekōz	*anadrekǫ̂
dative	*anadrekōi	*anadrekōmaz
instrumental	*anadrekō	*anadrekōmiz

Descendants

• Old English: *andraca, *enedraca, *endraca, *draca
  • Middle English: drake
    • Scots: drak, drake, draik, dreak
    • English: drake
• Old Saxon: *anadreko, *anadrako
  • Middle Low German: āntreke, āntdrāke, āndrake, ānderik, ēnderik
    • Low German: Drake, Draak
    • → Danish: andrik
    • → Swedish: anddrake
• Old Dutch: *enedreko, *anadrako
  • Middle Dutch: andrake
    • Dutch: draak
• Old High German: anutrehho, anetrehho, antrahho
  • Middle High German: antreche, antrache, antrach, ɛntrech, antreich, ɛntreich
    • German: Enterich, Drache (dialectal)
    • Alemannic German: Antrech