Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bunkô

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.

• ^? *bungô

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, tight, dense, plump”) (Can this⁽⁺⁾ etymology be sourced?) or *bʰe(n)g- (“to bend, bulge”); compare *bankô for the latter. Less likely related to Albanian bung (“sessile oak”), from Proto-Albanian *bunga, from *bʰewH- (“to grow”). The alternation with *bung- in High German may be an old remnant of the original stem, if it is not simply a dialectal voicing assimilation.

• IPA^(key): /ˈbuŋ.kɔːː/

*bunkô m

1. bump, lump
2. heap, pile
3. crowd

• Proto-West Germanic: *bunkō, *bungō
  • Old English: *bunca; *bunċen (< *bunkkīn)
    • Middle English: bunche, bonche
      • English: bunch (partially)
      • ⇒ Middle English: bunchy, bonchy
        • ⇒ Middle English: bunchines (“bump, hump, hunch”)
          • English: bunchiness
  • Old Frisian: bunka
    • Saterland Frisian: Bunke
    • West Frisian: bonke, bonk
  • Old Saxon: *bunko
    • Middle Low German: bunke, bunk
      • German Low German: Bunk
  • Old Dutch: *bunko
    • Middle Dutch: buncke, bonke, bonck, bonc
      • Dutch: bonk
  • >? Old High German: bungo
    • Middle High German: bunge
      • German: Bunge
• Old Norse: bunki
  • Icelandic: bunki
  • Faroese: bunki
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: bunka, bunga, bunke
  • Norwegian Bokmål: bunke
  • Swedish: bunke
  • Danish: bunke
  • → Middle Low German: bonk, bonik