Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/krappō
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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]Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *greb-, perhaps cognate with Armenian կարթ (kartʻ, “fish-hook”), Lithuanian gárbana (“lock of hair”).[1]
Noun
[edit]*krappō m
- a hook
Declension
[edit]| Masculine an-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *krappō | |
| Genitive | *krappini, *krappan | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *krappō | *krappan |
| Accusative | *krappan | *krappan |
| Genitive | *krappini, *krappan | *krappanō |
| Dative | *krappini, *krappan | *krappum |
| Instrumental | *krappini, *krappan | *krappum |
Descendants
[edit]- Old Saxon: krappo
- Old Dutch: *krappo
- Old High German: krapho, kraffo, krapfo
- → Old French: grappe (see there for further descendants)
- →⇒ Vulgar Latin: *crappalt, *crapalt
References
[edit]- ^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “kartʿ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 354