Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/banki

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

From Proto-Germanic *bankiz.

Noun

*banki f[1]

bench

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*banki
Genitive	*bankī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*banki	*bankī
Accusative	*banki	*bankī
Genitive	*bankī	*bankijō
Dative	*bankī	bankim, bankijum
Instrumental	*bankī	bankim, bankijum

Descendants

Old English: benċ, bænc
- Middle English: benk, bench, bynk, benche, banch, binch, binche
  - English: bench (see there for further descendants)
  - Scots: bink, benk
  - → Middle Irish: beinnse
    - Irish: binse
Old Frisian: bank, benk
- Saterland Frisian: Boank, Bank
- West Frisian: bank
Old Saxon: bank
- Middle Low German: bank
Old Dutch: *banc
- Middle Dutch: banc
  - Dutch: bank (see there for further descendants)
    - Afrikaans: bank
  - Limburgish: bank
Old High German: bank
- Middle High German: banc, bank
  - Bavarian: Bånk
  - German: Bank
    - → Danish: bank
    - → Norwegian Bokmål: bank
  - Luxembourgish: Bänk
  - Pennsylvania German: Bank
- → Old French: banc
  - French: banc (see there for further descendants)
  - Norman: banc
  - → Middle English: bank, banke
    - English: bank (see there for further descendants)
  - → Galician: banco
  - → Spanish: banco (see there for further descendants)
- → Old Italian: banco, banca
  - Italian: banco, banca (see there for further descendants)
    - ⇒ Italian: banchetto (see there for further descendants)
  - → Byzantine Greek: πάγκος (pánkos)
    - Greek: πάγκος (págkos)
  - → Middle French: banque (see there for further descendants)
  - → German: Bank (see there for further descendants)
- → Medieval Latin: bancus, banca
Lombardic: panch
- → Italian: panca

References

Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 287: “PWGmc *banki”

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[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 287: “PWGmc *banki”