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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fakōn
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
To explain the anomalous consonant in the modern English decendant, Kroonen reconstructs Proto-Germanic *fakk/gōn an iterative verb from Proto-Indo-European *peḱ- (“to pluck”). He suggests the following semantic development: 'to ravel out' > 'to become tired'.[1] Possibly conflated with a factitive construction *fak (“sleepy”) + *-ōn.
Verb
*fakōn
- to become tired
- to become sleepy
Inflection
| Class 2 weak | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *fakōn | |
| 1st sg. past | *fakōdā | |
| Infinitive | *fakōn | |
| Genitive infin. | *fakōnijas | |
| Dative infin. | *fakōnijē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *fakōniju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *fakō | *fakōdā |
| 2nd singular | *fakōs | *fakōdēs, *fakōdōs |
| 3rd singular | *fakōþ | *fakōdē, *fakōdā |
| 1st plural | *fakōm | *fakōdum |
| 2nd plural | *fakōþ | *fakōdud |
| 3rd plural | *fakōnþ | *fakōdun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *fakō | *fakōdī |
| 2nd singular | *fakōs | *fakōdī |
| 3rd singular | *fakō | *fakōdī |
| 1st plural | *fakōm | *fakōdīm |
| 2nd plural | *fakōþ | *fakōdīd |
| 3rd plural | *fakōn | *fakōdīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *fakō | |
| Plural | *fakōþ | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *fakōndī | *fakōd |
Descendants
- Old English: *facian, *faggian
- Middle English: *faken, *faggen
- English: fag
- Scots: faik
- Middle English: *faken, *faggen
- Old Dutch: facon
- Middle Dutch: vāken
- Dutch: vaken (obsolete)
- Middle Dutch: vāken
- Old High German: *fahhōn
- Middle High German: vachen
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*fakk/gōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 124-125