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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bakan

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

From Proto-Germanic *bakaną.

Verb

*bakan[1]

  1. to bake

Inflection

Strong class 6
Infinitive *bakan
1st sg. past *bōk
3rd pl. past *bōkun
Past ptcple *bakan
Infinitive *bakan
Genitive infin. *bakannjas
Dative infin. *bakannjē
Instrum. infin. *bakannju
Indicative Present Past
1st singular *baku *bōk
2nd singular *bakiʀi *bōkī
3rd singular *bakidi *bōk
1st plural *bakum *bōkum
2nd plural *bakid *bōkud
3rd plural *bakand *bōkun
Subjunctive Present Past
1st singular *bakē *bōkī
2nd singular *bakēs *bōkī
3rd singular *bakē *bōkī
1st plural *bakēm *bōkīm
2nd plural *bakēþ *bōkīd
3rd plural *bakēn *bōkīn
Imperative Present
Singular *bak
Plural *bakid
Present Past
Participle *bakandī *bakan

Descendants

Several of these descendants have a geminate -kk- due to contamination with the iterative.

  • Old English: bacan
    • Middle English: baken, bakyn, bake, bakenn
      • English: bake
      • Scots: bake
      • Irish: bácáil
  • Old Frisian: *baka, *bakka
    • North Frisian:
      Amrum, Feer: baag
      Hoolmer, Mooring, Ockholm: bååge
      Langenhorn, Hoorninger, Wiedingharder: baage
      Sylt: baak
    • Saterland Frisian: boake
    • West Frisian: bakke
  • Old Saxon: bakkan
  • Old Dutch: *bakan, *bakkan
  • Old High German: bahhan, backan

References

  1. Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 126:*bakan
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