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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kaug

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

Unknown;[1] suggested to possibly be related to Norwegian kage (low bush),[2] perhaps borrowed and ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *kagʰyóm (enclosure; hedge).[3]

Noun

*kaug m[1]

  1. (North Sea Germanic) polder, koog

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *kaug
Genitive *kaugas
Singular Plural
Nominative *kaug *kaugō, *kaugōs
Accusative *kaug *kaugā
Genitive *kaugas *kaugō
Dative *kaugē *kaugum
Instrumental *kaugu *kaugum

Descendants

  • Old Frisian: kāg, kāch
    • North Frisian: kuuch
    • West Frisian: keech
    • Middle Dutch: câech[4] [1287-1288]
  • Old Saxon: kōg
    • Middle Low German: kôch
      • Low German: kooch
      • German: Koog, Kog[1]
  • Old Dutch: *kōg[5]
    • Middle Dutch: côoch, coech, coich (or borrowed from Low German)
      • Dutch: koog (dated, dialectal)
    • ? Old Dutch: cogsculd

References

  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Kog”, in Elmar Seebold, editor, Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 388
  2. Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “koog”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
  3. Torp, Alf (1919) “Kage”, in Nynorsk Etymologisk Ordbok, Oslo: H. Aschehoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), page 254
  4. van Veen, P.A.F., van der Sijs, Nicoline (1997) “kaag¹”, in Etymologisch woordenboek: de herkomst van onze woorden (in Dutch), Utrecht, Antwerpen: Van Dale Lexicografie, →ISBN
  5. Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “koog”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press:Noordzee-Germaans *kāg
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