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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/lauk
Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *laukaz.
Noun
*lauk m
- leek
Inflection
Masculine a-stem | ||
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Singular | ||
Nominative | *lauk | |
Genitive | *laukas | |
Singular | Plural | |
Nominative | *lauk | *laukō, *laukōs |
Accusative | *lauk | *laukā |
Genitive | *laukas | *laukō |
Dative | *laukē | *laukum |
Instrumental | *lauku | *laukum |
Descendants
- Old English: lēac
- Middle English: leke, leek, lek, leeke, leyke
- English: leek
- Scots: leke, leik
- Middle English: leke, leek, lek, leeke, leyke
- Old Frisian: *lāk
- Saterland Frisian: Look
- West Frisian: lak, lok (possibly from Middle Dutch)
- Old Saxon: lōk
- Middle Low German: lōk
- Low German: Look
- Middle Low German: lōk
- Old Dutch: *lōk
- Middle Dutch: look
- Dutch: look
- West Flemish: look
- Middle Dutch: look
- Old High German: louh
- Middle High German: loch
- Alemannic German: Làuich
- German: Lauch
- Middle High German: loch