Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/baukn
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Proto-West Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Proto-Germanic *baukną.
Noun
[edit]*baukn n[1]
Inflection
[edit]Neuter a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *baukn | |
Genitive | *bauknas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *baukn | *bauknu |
Accusative | *baukn | *bauknu |
Genitive | *bauknas | *bauknō |
Dative | *bauknē | *bauknum |
Instrumental | *bauknu | *bauknum |
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Old English: bēacn, bēacen, bīecen, bēcen, bēcon, bēcun — Anglian
- Old Frisian: bāken, bēken
- Old Saxon: bōkan
- Middle Low German: bâken, bâke (from southern Eastphalian, or a conflation of grammatical paradigms with the borrowing from Old Frisian, see above)
- Dutch Low Saxon: boake (“(Easter) fire sign”)
- Middle Low German: bâken, bâke (from southern Eastphalian, or a conflation of grammatical paradigms with the borrowing from Old Frisian, see above)
- Old Dutch: *bōcan
- Old High German: bouhhan, bouchan, pouhhan, pouchan
- → Old French: boue, buie
References
[edit]- ^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 309: “PWGmc *baukn”