Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/mek

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

*mik

Etymology

From earlier *me-ge, from Proto-Indo-European *h₁me, inflection of Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.^[1]^[2] Compare *þek and *sek.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /mek/

Pronoun

*mek

me; accusative of *ek

Descendants

Old English: mec
Old Saxon: mik
- Low German: mik, mick, mich
  - German Low German: mik
Old Dutch: mik
Old High German: mih
- Middle High German: mich
  - Alemannic German: mich, mi
  - Central Franconian: mich
  - Cimbrian: mich
  - East Central German: mihch, mich, miech
  - German: mich
  - Hunsrik: mich
  - Luxembourgish: mech
  - Pennsylvania German: mich
  - Yiddish: מיך (mikh)
Old Norse: mik
- Icelandic: mig
- Faroese: meg
- Norwegian: meg
- Jamtish: meg
- Old Swedish: mik
  - Swedish: mig, mek (Värmland, Västergötland)
- Old Danish: mik, mæk
  - Danish: mig
Gothic: 𐌼𐌹𐌺 (mik)

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, pages 281-2

[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, pages 281-2

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