Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þek

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

*þik

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *te-ge.^[1]^[2] Compare *mek and *sek.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /θek/

Pronoun

*þek

accusative of *þū

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *þek
- Old English: þec, þæc — Mercian, ðeh, ðech — Northumbrian, þē
- Old Saxon: thik
- Old High German: dih
  - Middle High German: dich
    - Alemannic German: dich
    - Cimbrian: dich
    - German: dich
    - Hunsrik: dich
    - Luxembourgish: dech
    - Yiddish: דיך (dikh)
Old Norse: þik
- Icelandic: þig
- Faroese: teg
- Norwegian: deg
- Jamtish: deg
- Old Swedish: þik
  - Swedish: dig
- Danish: dig
Gothic: 𐌸𐌿𐌺 (þuk) (with analogical vowel)

References

^ Ringe, Donald (2006), From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎^[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 211: “the PIE clitic forms plus the PIE particle *-ge”
^ Dunkel, George E. (2014), Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 282: “*t(u̯)é ge”

[1] Ringe, Donald (2006), From Proto-Indo-European to Proto-Germanic (A Linguistic History of English; 1)‎^[1], Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 211: “the PIE clitic forms plus the PIE particle *-ge”

[2] Dunkel, George E. (2014), Lexikon der indogermanischen Partikeln und Pronominalstämme [Lexicon of Indo-European Particles and Pronominal Stems] (in German), volume 2: Lexikon, Heidelberg: Universitätsverlag Winter, →ISBN, page 282: “*t(u̯)é ge”

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