Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/smakku

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Alternative forms

*smak, *smakk

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-Germanic *smakkuz, from Proto-Indo-European *smeg-.

Noun

*smakku m

taste[1]

Inflection

u-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*smakku
Genitive	*smakkō
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*smakku	smakkiwi, smakkō
Accusative	*smakku	*smakkū
Genitive	*smakkō	*smakkiwō
Dative	smakkiwi, smakkō	*smakkum
Instrumental	*smakku	*smakkum

Derived terms

*smakēn
*smakkijan
*smakō

Descendants

Old English: smæċ, smæcc, smæċċ
- Middle English: smak, smac, smach, smech, ssmak
  - English: smack
  - Scots: smack
    - ⇒? Scots: smick
Old Frisian: *smak, smekk, smek
- Saterland Frisian: smace, Smoak
- West Frisian: smaek, smaak
Old Saxon: *smakk, *smak
- Middle Low German: smak
  - German Low German: Smakk
  - → Danish: smag
  - → Norwegian Bokmål: smak
  - → Polish: smak
    - → Belarusian: смак (smak)
    - → Russian: смак (smak)
    - → Ukrainian: смак (smak)
  - → Swedish: smak
  - →? Faroese: smakkur
Old Dutch: smak
- Middle Dutch: smac
Old High German: smak, smac
- Middle High German: smac, smach
  - German: Schmack
  - Yiddish: שמעק‎ (shmek)
- ⇒ Old High German: gismac, gismah
  - Middle High German: gesmac, gesmacke
    - Cimbrian: gasmékh
    - German: Geschmack, Geschmeck
    - Luxembourgish: Geschmaach

References

Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*smak(k)ōn ~ *smak(k)az”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 352

[1] Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*smak(k)ōn ~ *smak(k)az”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 352