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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þrakjaz
Proto-Germanic
Alternative forms
- *þrekkaz
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *(s)terǵ-, *(s)terḱ-, *(s)treḱ- (“manure, dung; to sully, soil, decay”). Cognate with Latin stercus (“dung, manure”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈθrɑk.jɑz/
Noun
*þrakjaz m
- dirt
Inflection
masculine ja-stemDeclension of *þrakjaz (masculine ja-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *þrakjaz | *þrakjōz, *þrakjōs | |
vocative | *þraki | *þrakjōz, *þrakjōs | |
accusative | *þrakją | *þrakjanz | |
genitive | *þrakjas, *þrakis | *þrakjǫ̂ | |
dative | *þrakjai | *þrakjamaz | |
instrumental | *þrakjō | *þrakjamiz |
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *þraki
- Old English: þreahs, þreax
- Old Frisian: threkk
- >? Saterland Frisian: Dräk (possibly borrowed from Low German)
- (West Frisian: dridze ?)
- Old Saxon: *threkk
- Middle Low German: dreck
- German Low German: Dreck
- Middle Low German: dreck
- Old Dutch: *threc
- Middle Dutch: drec
- Dutch: drek
- Middle Dutch: drec
- Old High German: threc (in compound mūsthrec)
- Middle High German: drëc
- Cimbrian: drèkh
- German: Dreck, Drekk
- → Czech: drek
- → Serbo-Croatian: дре̏к (drȅk)
- → Slovene: drȅk
- Luxembourgish: Dreck
- Yiddish: דרעק (drek)
- → English: dreck, drek
- → Russian: дрек (drɛk)
- Middle High German: drëc
- Old Norse: þrekkr
- Icelandic: þrekkur
- Old Swedish: thrækker
- Swedish: träck
- Old Danish: træk
- Danish: dræk