Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/inkô

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

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁engō, from *h₁eng-. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ѧꙃа (ędza, “illness, disease”) (whence Serbo-Croatian је́за/jéza (“horror, shiver”), Slovene jẹ́za (“anger”) and dialectal Bulgarian енза (enza, “sickness”)), Lithuanian éngti (“to press, strangle”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈiŋ.kɔːː/

Noun

*inkô m

1. grief, ache, regret

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *inkô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*inkô	*inkaniz
vocative	*inkô	*inkaniz
accusative	*inkanų	*inkanunz
genitive	*inkiniz	*inkanǫ̂
dative	*inkini	*inkammaz
instrumental	*inkinē	*inkammiz

Related terms

• *inkaz
• *inkiją

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *inkō
  • Old English: inca
    • Middle English: inke
      • ⇒ Middle English: inklen, inclen
        • English: inkle
        • ⇒ Middle English: *ynklyng, nyngkiling
          • English: inkling
          • Scots: inklin
  • ⇒ Old Frisian: ink, jinc (“irritated”, adj)
• Old Norse: ekki
  • Icelandic: ekki
  • Faroese: ekki