Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kalik

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

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin calix ~ calicis (“cup, chalice; cooking pot”).

Noun

*kalik m

1. chalice

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*kalik
Genitive	*kalikas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*kalik	*kalikō, *kalikōs
Accusative	*kalik	*kalikā
Genitive	*kalikas	*kalikō
Dative	*kalikē	*kalikum
Instrumental	*kaliku	*kalikum

Descendants

• Old English: ċæliċ, caliċ, ċeliċ, cælċ, ċelċ
  • Middle English: calch (displaced by chalis from Old French)
• Old Frisian: tzilik, tzelk, tzielk
  • West Frisian: tsjelk, tsjelke
• Old Saxon: kelik
  • Middle Low German: kelek, kelk, kelik, kellik
    • German Low German: Kelk
    • → Old Norse: kalkr, kalekr
      • Old Swedish: kalker
        • Swedish: kalk
• Old Dutch: kelik
  • Middle Dutch: kelch, kēlec, kelc
    • Dutch: kelk
      • Afrikaans: kelk
      • → Papiamentu: kèlki, kelki
• Old High German: kelih, kelh, kelich
  • Middle High German: kelich, kelch
    • Cimbrian: khèlch
    • German: Kelch
      • → English: kelch, Kelch
    • → Czech: kalich
    • → Polish: kielich
      • → Belarusian: ке́ліх (kjélix)
      • → Ukrainian: ке́лих (kélyx), ке́лех (kélex)
    • → Slovak: kalich
    • → Slovene: kẹ́lih