Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/drunkiz

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

Etymology

Derived from *drinkaną (“to drink”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈdruŋ.kiz/

Noun

*drunkiz m

1. drink

Inflection

Declension of *drunkiz (i-stem)

	singular	plural
nominative	*drunkiz	*drunkīz
vocative	*drunki	*drunkīz
accusative	*drunkį	*drunkinz
genitive	*drunkīz	*drunkijǫ̂
dative	*drunkī	*drunkimaz
instrumental	*drunkī	*drunkimiz

Descendants

• Old English: drynċ
  • Middle English: drinche, drink, drinke, drunch
    • English: drink (see there for further descendants)
• Old Saxon: *drunk
  • Middle Low German: drunk
    • German Low German: Drunk
• Old Dutch: *drunc, *drunk
  • Middle Dutch: dronc
    • Dutch: dronk
      • Afrikaans: dronk
• Old High German: trunk
  • Middle High German: trunc
    • German: Trunk
      • → Polish: trunek
• Old Norse: drykkr
  • Icelandic: drykkur
  • Faroese: drykkur
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: drykk; (dialectal) drykk’e
  • Elfdalian: drykk
  • Old Swedish: drykker
    • Swedish: dryck f
  • Danish: drik
    • Norwegian Bokmål: drikk

References

• Kroonen, Guus (2013), Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN