Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/aiks

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 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.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

May be from Proto-Indo-European *h₂éyǵs (“oak”), if related to the first component *αἴξ (*aíx) of Ancient Greek αἰγίλωψ (aigílōps), from a root *h₂eyǵ- whence also Lithuanian áižuols, Latvian uôzuōls, Albanian enjë (< Proto-Albanian *aignjā) and possibly Latin aesculus (if earlier *aig-sculus). However all of the supposed Indo-European cognates are of unclear origin, and according to Kroonen this fact along with the root-noun inflection may be indicative of a non-Indo-European substrate origin; compare also Basque ezkur (“acorn”).

Pronunciation

Noun

*aiks f

  1. oak tree
    Synonym: *ferhuz
  2. oak (wood)

Inflection

consonant stemDeclension of *aiks (consonant stem)
singular plural
nominative *aiks *aikiz
vocative *aik *aikiz
accusative *aikų *aikunz
genitive *aikiz *aikǫ̂
dative *aiki *aikumaz
instrumental *aikē *aikumiz

Derived terms

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic: *aik
  • Old Norse: eik
    • Icelandic: eik f
    • Faroese: eik f
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: eik f
      • → Norwegian Bokmål: eik m or f
    • Old Swedish: ēk
      • Swedish: ek c
    • Danish: eg c
      • Norwegian Bokmål: ek m
    • Gutnish: aik
  • → Proto-Samic: *(h)ājkkë (see there for further descendants)

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*aik-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 9
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