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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þekuz
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *tégus (“thick”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθe.kuz/
Adjective
*þekuz
- thick
Inflection
Declension of *þekuz (u-stem)
| strong declension | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| masculine | feminine | neuter | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| nominative | *þekuz | *þikwijai | *þikwī | *þikwijôz | *þeku | *þikwijō |
| accusative | *þikwijanǭ | *þikwijanz | *þikwijǭ | *þikwijōz | *þeku | *þikwijō |
| genitive | *þikwijas, *þikwīs | *þikwijaizǫ̂ | *þikwijaizōz | *þikwijaizǫ̂ | *þikwijas, *þikwīs | *þikwijaizǫ̂ |
| dative | *þikwijammai | *þikwijaimaz | *þikwijaizōi | *þikwijaimaz | *þikwijammai | *þikwijaimaz |
| instrumental | *þikwijanō | *þikwijaimiz | *þikwijaizō | *þikwijaimiz | *þikwijanō | *þikwijaimiz |
| weak declension | ||||||
| masculine | feminine | neuter | ||||
| singular | plural | singular | plural | singular | plural | |
| nominative | *þikwijô | *þikwijaniz | *þikwijǭ | *þikwijōniz | *þikwijô | *þikwijōnō |
| accusative | *þikwijanų | *þikwijanunz | *þikwijōnų | *þikwijōnunz | *þikwijô | *þikwijōnō |
| genitive | *þikwīniz | *þikwijanǫ̂ | *þikwijōniz | *þikwijōnǫ̂ | *þikwīniz | *þikwijanǫ̂ |
| dative | *þikwīni | *þikwijammaz | *þikwijōni | *þikwijōmaz | *þikwīni | *þikwijammaz |
| instrumental | *þikwīnē | *þikwijammiz | *þikwijōnē | *þikwijōmiz | *þikwīnē | *þikwijammiz |
Descendants
- Old English: þicce
- Middle English: thicke, thikke
- Scots: thik, thicke, thick
- English: thick
- Middle English: thicke, thikke
- Old Frisian: thikke
- Saterland Frisian: tjuk
- West Frisian: tsjok, tsjûk
- Old Saxon: thikki
- Middle Low German: dicke
- Low German: dick
- Plautdietsch: dikj
- Middle Low German: dicke
- Old Dutch: *thicki
- Middle Dutch: dicke
- Dutch: dik
- Afrikaans: dik
- → Papiamentu: diki
- → Sranan Tongo: deki
- Dutch: dik
- Middle Dutch: dicke
- Old High German: dicchi
- Middle High German: dick, dicke
- Central Franconian:
- Kölsch: deck
- German: dick
- Luxembourgish: déck
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: dick
- Yiddish: דיק (dik)
- Central Franconian:
- Middle High German: dick, dicke
- Old Norse: þjokkr, þjukkr, þykkr
- Icelandic: þykkur
- Faroese: tjúkkur, tjukkur
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: tykk, tjukk
- Nynorsk: tjukk
- Old Swedish: thiokker, thiukker
- Swedish: tjock
- Old Danish: thyk, thiuk, thiok
- Danish: tyk
- Westrobothnian: tjokk
- Elfdalian: tiokk
- Jamtish: tjukk
- Gutnish: tjåkkar
- Scanian: tjykker
- → Finnish: tykky (“thick snow on trees”)
- → Proto-Samic: *teakkē
- Northern Sami: deahkki (“thick meat”)