Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plukkijan

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

A class 1 weak verb closely related to the iterative verb *plukkōn. Could be derived from *plukkō (“pluck of hair”) +‎ *-jan. Possibly inherited from a theoretical Proto-Germanic *plukkijaną.

Verb

*plukkijan

to pluck

Inflection

Class 1 weak
Infinitive	*plukkijan
1st sg. past	*plukkidā
Infinitive	*plukkijan
Genitive infin.	*plukkijannjas
Dative infin.	*plukkijannjē
Instrum. infin.	*plukkijannju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*plukkiju	*plukkidā
2nd singular	*plukkisi	plukkidēs, plukkidōs
3rd singular	*plukkiþi	plukkidē, plukkidā
1st plural	*plukkijum	*plukkidum
2nd plural	*plukkiþ	*plukkidud
3rd plural	*plukkijanþ	*plukkidun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*plukkijē	*plukkidī
2nd singular	*plukkijēs	*plukkidī
3rd singular	*plukkijē	*plukkidī
1st plural	*plukkijēm	*plukkidīm
2nd plural	*plukkijēþ	*plukkidīd
3rd plural	*plukkijēn	*plukkidīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*plukki
Plural	*plukkiþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*plukkijandī	*plukkid

Descendants

Old English: plyccan
- Middle English: plicchen
  - English: plitch
Old Saxon: *plukkian
- Middle Low German: plücken
Old Dutch: plucken
- Middle Dutch: plucken
  - Dutch: plukken
Old High German: *phlucken
- Middle High German: pflücken
  - German: pflücken

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*plukkjan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 398