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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hraukaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Unknown; but apparently cognate with Lithuanian kruvà, krûvà (“pile, heap, stack”), Old Irish crúach (“stack of corn, rick”). Possibly Proto-Indo-European *krewH- (“to heap up”).[1][2]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxrɑu̯.kɑz/
Noun
*hraukaz m
- pile (of stones); heap
- Synonym: *hrūgǭ
- haystack
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *hraukaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *hraukaz | *hraukōz, *hraukōs | |
vocative | *hrauk | *hraukōz, *hraukōs | |
accusative | *hrauką | *hraukanz | |
genitive | *hraukas, *hraukis | *hraukǫ̂ | |
dative | *hraukai | *hraukamaz | |
instrumental | *hraukō | *hraukamiz |
Derived terms
- *hraukilaz
Related terms
- *hrugjaz (“back, spine, ridge”)
- *hrūgǭ (“heap, pile”)
- *hrukō
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *hrauk
- Old English: hrēac, hrēc
- Middle English: rek, reek, reke
- English: reek, rick
- Middle Scots: reek, rick
- Middle English: rek, reek, reke
- Old Saxon: hrōk
- Old Dutch: *hrouk, *hrōk
- Middle Dutch: rooc
- Dutch: rook
- Middle Dutch: rooc
- Old English: hrēac, hrēc
- Old Norse: hraukr
- Icelandic: hraukur
- Faroese: reykur
- Norwegian: rauk
- Old Swedish: rø̄ker
- Swedish: rök
- Danish: røg
- Westrobothnian: rauk
- Gutnish: rauk
- → Swedish: rauk
- → Middle English: *rowk, roke, rooke
- Scots: rowke, rouk, rook
- ? Finnic:
- → Estonian: rõuk
- → Finnish: röykkiö, roukkio
- → Ingrian: roukko
- → Veps: rouk
References
- Matasović, Ranko (2009), “krowko”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Celtic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 9), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, pages 226-27
- Pokorny, Julius (1959) Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 3, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, page 1513