Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/brakkō

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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]

Unknown; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *bʰreHg- (“to stink, fart”), perhaps a borrowing.[1]

Noun[edit]

*brakkō m

  1. hunting dog, sleuthhound

Inflection[edit]

Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *brakkō
Genitive *brakkini, *brakkan
Singular Plural
Nominative *brakkō *brakkan
Accusative *brakkan *brakkan
Genitive *brakkini, *brakkan *brakkanō
Dative *brakkini, *brakkan *brakkum
Instrumental *brakkini, *brakkan *brakkum

Descendants[edit]

  • Old Frisian: brakka, brakko
  • Old Saxon: *brakka
    • Middle Low German: bracke
      • German Low German:
        Westphalian:
        Bentheimisch, Dortmundisch, Westmünsterländisch: Bracke
  • Old Dutch: *brakka
  • Old High German: bracko

References[edit]

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*brakka(n)-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 73-74
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