Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/þukkōną

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.

From earlier paradigm *þukkōþi ~ *þugunanþi, from pre-Proto-Germanic *tuk-nā́-ti ~ *tuk-un-ánti, iterative from Proto-Indo-European *(s)tewk- (“to shove, push”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈθuk.kɔː.nɑ̃/

*þukkōną

1. to shove, push out of the way

The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, *þukk- in the singular, *þug- in the non-singular.

• Proto-West Germanic: *þukkōn, *þokōn
  • Old English: *þocian
    • ⇒ Old English: þocerian
  • ⇒ Old English: *þucc
    • >? Middle English: thucke (“nasty trick, harm”)
  • Old High German: *duh, *duk
    • >? Middle High German: duc, tuc (“push, blow”)
      • German: Tuck (dialectal)
• Old Norse: þoka (“to move, give way, budge”)
  • Icelandic: þoka
  • Faroese: toka
  • Norwegian: toka, tokka
  • →⇒? Middle English: thoke (adj)
    • ⇒ English: thokish (dialectal)
    • ⇒ English: thoky (dialectal)
• ⇒ Old Norse: þukla
  • Icelandic: þukla
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: tukla, tukle
  • Norwegian Bokmål: tukle

• Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN