Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bunkô

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

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, tight, dense, plump”) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) or *bʰe(n)g- (“to bend, bulge”); compare *bankô for the latter. Alternatively related to Albanian bung (“sessile oak”), from Proto-Albanian *bunga, from *bʰewH- (“to grow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuŋ.kɔːː/

Noun

*bunkô m

1. crowd
2. heap, pile
3. bump, lump

Declension

Declension of *bunkô (an-stem)

Case	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*bunkô	*bunkaniz
Vocative	*bunkô	*bunkaniz
Accusative	*bunkanų	*bunkanunz
Genitive	*bunkiniz	*bunkanǫ̂
Dative	*bunkini	*bunkammaz
Instrumental	*bunkinē	*bunkammiz

Descendants

• Old English: *bunca; *bunċe
  • Middle English: bunche, bonche
    • English: bunch (partially)
    • ⇒ Middle English: bunchy, bonchy
      • ⇒ Middle English: bunchines (“bump, hump, hunch”)
        • English: bunchiness
• Old Frisian: bunka
  • Saterland Frisian: Bunke
  • West Frisian: bonke, bonk
• Old Saxon: *bunko
  • Middle Low German: bunke, bunk
    • German Low German: Bunk
• Old Dutch: *bunko
  • Middle Dutch: buncke, bonke, bonck, bonc
    • Dutch: bonk
• Old High German: bungo
  • Middle High German: bunge
    • German: Bunge
• Old Norse: bunki
  • Icelandic: bunki
  • Faroese: bunki
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bunka, bunga, bunke
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bunke
  • Swedish: bunke
  • Danish: bunke
  • → Middle Low German: bonk, bonik