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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/warkiz
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *werg- (“to suffer”).[1]
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wɑr.kiz/
Noun
*warkiz m
- pain
Inflection
| i-stemDeclension of *warkiz (i-stem) | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | *warkiz | *warkīz | |
| vocative | *warki | *warkīz | |
| accusative | *warkį | *warkinz | |
| genitive | *warkīz | *warkijǫ̂ | |
| dative | *warkī | *warkimaz | |
| instrumental | *warkī | *warkimiz | |
Derived terms
- *warkijaną
Related terms
- *werką
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *warki
- Old English: wærc, werc, weorc, wræc, wærċ
- Middle English: werk, warch
- Scots: wark, wrak
- English: wark
- Middle English: werk, warch
- Old English: wærc, werc, weorc, wræc, wærċ
- Old Norse: verkr
- Icelandic: verkur
- Faroese: verkur
- Norwegian: verk
- Old Swedish: værker
- Swedish: värk
- Danish: værk
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN