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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/drakō
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *drakô.
Noun
*drakō m[1]
- dragon
Inflection
Masculine an-stem | ||
---|---|---|
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *drakō | *drakan |
Accusative | *drakan | *drakan |
Genitive | *drakini | *drakanō |
Dative | *drakini | *drakum |
Instrumental | *drakini | *drakum |
Descendants
- Old English: draca
- Middle English: drake
- English: drake
- Middle English: drake
- Old Frisian:
- West Frisian: draak (possibly borrowed from Dutch)
- Old Saxon:
- Middle Low German:
- → Old Norse: dreki
- Icelandic: dreki
- Faroese: dreki
- Norwegian: drake
- Old Swedish: draki
- Swedish: drake
- Old Danish: draghæ
- Danish: drage
- Elfdalian: dratji
- Westrobothnian: draka-, dräka-, dräga-
- → Old Norse: dreki
- Middle Low German:
- Old Dutch: *draka
- Middle Dutch: drāke
- Dutch: draak
- Afrikaans: draak
- Limburgish: draagk, draogk
- Dutch: draak
- Middle Dutch: drāke
- Old High German: trahho
- Middle High German: trache
- Alemannic German: Traach
- Bavarian: Drack
- German: Drache
- Luxembourgish: Draach
- Rhine Franconian:
- Pennsylvania German: Drach
- Vilamovian: draoch
- Middle High German: trache
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136: “PWGmc *drakō”