Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plakkju

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/plaggą

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; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.

Noun

*plakkju f

spot, stain
patch, place

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*plakkju
Genitive	*plakkjā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*plakkju	*plakkjō
Accusative	*plakkjā	*plakkjā
Genitive	*plakkjā	*plakkjō
Dative	*plakkjē	plakkjōm, plakkjum
Instrumental	*plakkju	plakkjōm, plakkjum

Descendants

Old English: *plæċċ
- Middle English: *placche, plecche
  - ⇒? Middle English: pacche
    - English: patch
- >? Middle English: placche (attested in plural as placchis (“splinters, fragments, pieces”))
Old Frisian: *plekk
- Saterland Frisian: Pläk
- West Frisian: plak, plek (also possibly a borrowing from Dutch)
Old Saxon: *plekkia
- Middle Low German: plecke
Old Dutch: *plekka
- Middle Dutch: plecke, pleecke, pleke
  - Dutch: plek
  - → Middle English: plecke
    - English: pleck

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