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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/hōkīn

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 *hōk (“buck, goat”) +‎ *-īn (diminutive ending). According to Kroonen, borrowed from a non-Indo-European substrate language.[1] Possibly cognate with Proto-Slavic *kozà (e.g. Russian коза́ (kozá, “goat”), Serbo-Croatian ко̀за (“goat”) and Old Church Slavonic коза (koza, “goat”)), however common Indo-European inheritance is impossible due to the absence of application of Winter's law in the Slavic forms. Compare also Albanian kedh (“kid”).

Noun

*hōkīn n[1]

  1. kid, young goat
    Synonym: *tikkīn

Inflection
Neuter a-stem
Singular
Nominative *hōkīn
Genitive *hōkīnas
Singular Plural
Nominative *hōkīn *hōkīnu
Accusative *hōkīn *hōkīnu
Genitive *hōkīnas *hōkīnō
Dative *hōkīnē *hōkīnum
Instrumental *hōkīnu *hōkīnum

Descendants
  • Old English: hēċen
  • Old Saxon: *hōkīn
  • Old Dutch: *hōkīn
    • Middle Dutch: hoekijn

References
  1. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*hōkīna-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 239
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