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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kwerkō
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *gʷerh₃- (“to swallow, devour, eat”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkʷer.kɔː/
Noun
*kwerkō f[1]
- throat
Inflection
| ō-stemDeclension of *kwerkō (ō-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *kwerkō | *kwerkôz | |
| vocative | *kwerkō | *kwerkôz | |
| accusative | *kwerkǭ | *kwerkōz | |
| genitive | *kwerkōz | *kwerkǫ̂ | |
| dative | *kwerkōi | *kwerkōmaz | |
| instrumental | *kwerkō | *kwerkōmiz | |
Derived terms
- *kwirkijaną
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *kwerku
- ⇒ Old Frisian: querka, quertza (verb)
- North Frisian: querke, quirke
- Old Saxon: *querka
- Middle Low German: querke, quarke
- ⇒ Middle Low German: querken (verb)
- Old High German: querka, querkala, querkela
- ⇒ Old Frisian: querka, quertza (verb)
- Old Norse: kverk
- Icelandic: kverk
- Norwegian Bokmål: kverk
- Norwegian Nynorsk: kverk
- Faroese: kvørkrar (plural)
- → Middle English: *querk
- >? English: quirk
- Scots: querk
- → Proto-Finnic: *kurkku(see there for further descendants)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*kwerkō-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 317