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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/tōgô
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *deh₃gʰ-. Possibly cognate with Albanian degë.[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈtɔː.ɣɔːː/
Noun
*tōgô m
- twig; branch
- Synonyms: *astaz, *limuz, *telguz, *twīgą
Inflection
| masculine an-stemDeclension of *tōgô (masculine an-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *tōgô | *tōganiz | |
| vocative | *tōgô | *tōganiz | |
| accusative | *taganų | *takkunz | |
| genitive | *takkaz | *takkǫ̂ | |
| dative | *tagini | *tagummiz | |
| instrumental | *takkē | *takkamiz | |
Descendants
- Old High German: zuogo
- Old Saxon: tōgo
- Middle Dutch: tooch
- Dutch: toege
From a levelled variant tagg-:
- North Germanic:
- Danish: tagge
- Norwegian Nynorsk: tagge
- Old Swedish: tagger
- Swedish: tagg
- → English: tag
From the genitive stem takk-:
- Old High German: zacken pl
- German: Zacke
- Middle Dutch: tac
- Dutch: tak
- → Old French: taque
- → Middle English: takke
- English: tack
- → Middle English: takke
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*tōgan- ~ *takkan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 519