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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/baukn
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *baukną.
Noun
*baukn n[1]
- sign, symbol
Inflection
| Neuter a-stem | ||
|---|---|---|
| Singular | ||
| Nominative | *baukn | |
| Genitive | *bauknas | |
| Singular | Plural | |
| Nominative | *baukn | *bauknu |
| Accusative | *baukn | *bauknu |
| Genitive | *bauknas | *bauknō |
| Dative | *bauknē | *bauknum |
| Instrumental | *bauknu | *bauknum |
Descendants
- Old English: bēacen, bēcn, bēacna, bīecen
- Middle English: beken, beekne, bekne, bekyn
- Scots: bekin, beikin
- English: beacon
- Middle English: beken, beekne, bekne, bekyn
- Old Frisian: bāken, bēken
- North Frisian: biike, baake, beken
- Saterland Frisian: Baake, Boake
- West Frisian: beaken
- → Middle Dutch: baken, bakin, beke, beken
- Dutch: baken, baak
- → Old Norse: bákn, báken
- Icelandic: bákn
- Faroese: bákn
- Norwegian: båk, båke
- Swedish: båk
- Danish: bavn, båke
- → Middle Low German: bāke
- Low German: Bāke
- → German: Bake
- Old Saxon: bōkan
- Middle Low German: bāken (either from southern Eastphalian, which is a Low German dialect, or a conflation of grammatical paradigms with the borrowing from Old Frisian, see above)
- Dutch Low Saxon: boake (“(Easter) fire sign”)
- Middle Low German: bāken (either from southern Eastphalian, which is a Low German dialect, or a conflation of grammatical paradigms with the borrowing from Old Frisian, see above)
- Old Dutch: *bōcan
- Middle Dutch: bōken
- Old High German: bouhhan, bouchan, pouhhan, pouchan
- Middle High German: bouchen
- German: Bauke
- Alemannic German: Pauchen, Böchen
- Swabian: Bauchen
- Middle High German: bouchen
- ⇒ Old French: boue, buie (alternatively from Latin boia)
- Middle French: bouee, boue
- French: bouée
- → Catalan: boia
- → Middle Dutch: boye, boeye
- Dutch: boei
- → Middle English: buoy, boye
- English: buoy
- → German: Boje
- Polish: boja
- → Spanish: boya
- → Galician: boia
- Middle French: bouee, boue
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 309: “PWGmc *baukn”