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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/prakkōn
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
Unclear, there are no known cognates outside Germanic. Kroonen reconstructs Proto-Germanic *prakkōną an iterative verb from Proto-Indo-European *brogʰ-néh₂-ti, and suggests a connection with *prangan (“to press”).[1]
Verb
*prakkōn
- to press
Inflection
| Class 2 weak | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *prakkōn | |
| 1st sg. past | *prakkōdā | |
| Infinitive | *prakkōn | |
| Genitive infin. | *prakkōnijas | |
| Dative infin. | *prakkōnijē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *prakkōniju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *prakkō | *prakkōdā |
| 2nd singular | *prakkōs | *prakkōdēs, *prakkōdōs |
| 3rd singular | *prakkōþ | *prakkōdē, *prakkōdā |
| 1st plural | *prakkōm | *prakkōdum |
| 2nd plural | *prakkōþ | *prakkōdud |
| 3rd plural | *prakkōnþ | *prakkōdun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *prakkō | *prakkōdī |
| 2nd singular | *prakkōs | *prakkōdī |
| 3rd singular | *prakkō | *prakkōdī |
| 1st plural | *prakkōm | *prakkōdīm |
| 2nd plural | *prakkōþ | *prakkōdīd |
| 3rd plural | *prakkōn | *prakkōdīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *prakkō | |
| Plural | *prakkōþ | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *prakkōndī | *prakkōd |
Descendants
- Old Saxon: *prakkōn
- Middle Low German: *pracken
- Low German: prakken
- → Norwegian:
- → Norwegian Bokmål: prakke
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: prakka, prakke
- → Swedish: pracka
- → Danish: prakke
- Middle Low German: *pracken
- Old Dutch: *prakkon
- Middle Dutch: pracken
- Dutch: prakken
- Middle Dutch: pracken
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*prakkōn-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 399