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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/prakkōn

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

Unclear, there are no known cognates outside Germanic. Kroonen reconstructs Proto-Germanic *prakkōną an iterative verb from Proto-Indo-European *brogʰ-néh₂-ti, and suggests a connection with *prangan (“to press”).[1]

Verb

*prakkōn

  1. to press

Inflection
Class 2 weak
Infinitive *prakkōn
1st sg. past *prakkōdā
Infinitive *prakkōn
Genitive infin. *prakkōnijas
Dative infin. *prakkōnijē
Instrum. infin. *prakkōniju
Indicative Present Past
1st singular *prakkō *prakkōdā
2nd singular *prakkōs *prakkōdēs, *prakkōdōs
3rd singular *prakkōþ *prakkōdē, *prakkōdā
1st plural *prakkōm *prakkōdum
2nd plural *prakkōþ *prakkōdud
3rd plural *prakkōnþ *prakkōdun
Subjunctive Present Past
1st singular *prakkō *prakkōdī
2nd singular *prakkōs *prakkōdī
3rd singular *prakkō *prakkōdī
1st plural *prakkōm *prakkōdīm
2nd plural *prakkōþ *prakkōdīd
3rd plural *prakkōn *prakkōdīn
Imperative Present
Singular *prakkō
Plural *prakkōþ
Present Past
Participle *prakkōndī *prakkōd

Descendants
  • Old Saxon: *prakkōn
    • Middle Low German: *pracken
      • Low German: prakken
      • → Norwegian:
        → Norwegian Bokmål: prakke
        → Norwegian Nynorsk: prakka, prakke
      • → Swedish: pracka
      • → Danish: prakke
  • Old Dutch: *prakkon
    • Middle Dutch: pracken

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*prakkōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 399
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