Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/drakō

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 dracō (“dragon”).

Noun

*drakō m

1. dragon

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*drakō
Genitive	*drakini, *drakan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*drakō	*drakan
Accusative	*drakan	*drakan
Genitive	*drakini, *drakan	*drakanō
Dative	*drakini, *drakan	*drakum
Instrumental	*drakini, *drakan	*drakum

Descendants

• Old English: draca
  • Middle English: drake
    • English: drake
• Old Frisian:
  • West Frisian: draak (possibly borrowed from Dutch)
• Old Saxon:
  • Middle Low German:
    • → Old Norse: dreki
      • Icelandic: dreki
      • Faroese: dreki
      • Norwegian Nynorsk: drake; (dialectal) drakkji, dragje, draga
      • Norwegian Bokmål: drake
      • Elfdalian: dratji
      • Old Swedish: draki
        • Swedish: drake
      • Old Danish: draghæ
        • Danish: drage
          • Norwegian Bokmål: drage
• Old Dutch: *draka
  • Middle Dutch: drāke
    • Dutch: draak
      • Afrikaans: draak
    • Limburgish: draagk, draogk
• Old High German: trahho, tracho, trakko, tracko
  • Middle High German: trache
    • Alemannic German: Traach
    • Bavarian: Drack
    • German: Drache
    • Luxembourgish: Draach
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Pennsylvania German: Drach

    • Vilamovian: draoch