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]

  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, dræce
    • Middle English: drake
      • English: drake
    • → Old West Norse: dreki[2][3][4] (via* dræce; or ← Old Saxon/Middle Low German)[3][4]
  • Old Frisian: *draka
    • West Frisian: draak (possibly borrowed from Dutch)
  • Old Saxon: *drako
    • Middle Low German: drāke, drake
      • German Low German: Drake
      • → Norwegian Nynorsk: drake; (dialectal) drakkji, dragje, draga[5][6]
        • → Norwegian Bokmål: drake
      • → Old Danish: draghæ[6]
      • → Old Swedish: draki
        • Swedish: drake[7] (see there for further descendants)
        • → Elfdalian: dratji
  • Old Dutch: *draco
    • Middle Dutch: drāke
      • Dutch: draak
      • Limburgish: draagk, draogk
      • West Flemish: droake
  • 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

References

  1. ^ Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014), The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136: “PWGmc *drakō”
  2. ^ Fischer, Frank (1909), “6: Englisch-lateinische Lehnwörter”, in Die Lehnwörter des Altwestnordischen‎[1] (in German), Berlin: Mayer & Müller, page 47: “dreki m., 'Drache’ : ae. draca (oder ir. drac Indfl. S. 202), l. draco.”
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009), “draak”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎[2] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: “on. dreki ‘draak; vikingschip’ (< oe. of mnd.)”
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 de Vries, Jan (1971), “draak”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN: “on. dreki is uit het oe. of uit het mnd. ontleend”
  5. ^ Torp, Alf (1919), “drake”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard)
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 van der Sijs, Nicoline (2010), “draak”, in Nederlandse woorden wereldwijd [Dutch words worldwide]‎[3] (in Dutch), The Hague: Sdu Uitgevers, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 283
  7. ^ Philippa, Marlies; Debrabandere, Frans; Quak, Arend; Schoonheim, Tanneke; van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009), “draak”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎[4] (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press: “nzw. drake ‘draak’, drakkar ‘vikingschip’, letterlijk ‘draken’ < mnd.”
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