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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/inkô

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁engō, from *h₁eng-. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ѧꙃа (ędza, “illness, disease”) (whence Serbo-Croatian је́за/jéza (“horror, shiver”), Slovene jẹ́za (“anger”) and dialectal Bulgarian енза (enza, “sickness”)), Lithuanian éngti (“to press, strangle”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈiŋ.kɔːː/

Noun

*inkô m

  1. grief, ache, regret

Inflection
masculine an-stemDeclension of *inkô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *inkô *inkaniz
vocative *inkô *inkaniz
accusative *inkanų *inkanunz
genitive *inkiniz *inkanǫ̂
dative *inkini *inkammaz
instrumental *inkinē *inkammiz
  • *inkaz
  • *inkiją

Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic: *inkō
    • Old English: inca
      • Middle English: inke
        • ⇒ Middle English: inklen, inclen
          • English: inkle
          • ⇒ Middle English: *ynklyng, nyngkiling
    • ⇒ Old Frisian: ink, jinc (“irritated”, adj)
  • Old Norse: ekki

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
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