Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/feukaną

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.

Probably backformed to the iterative *fukkōną (“to blow, gust”). From Proto-Indo-European *pewg- (“billow, bulge, drift”). Cognate with Latvian pūgà (“gust, blast, storm, blizzard”).^[1]

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸeu̯.kɑ.nɑ̃/

*feukaną

1. to blow
2. to be blown away

• *fūkaną (with ū as innovative full grade marker)

• *faukijaną

From *feukaną:

• Old Norse: fjúka
  • Icelandic: fjúka (“to be blown away”)
  • Faroese: fúka (“to drift, dash, be blown away”)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fyke, fyka (“to fly away”)
  • Jamtish: fýke
  • Old Swedish: fiūka, fȳka
    • Swedish: fjuka, fyka (“to be drifted by the wind”)
  • Scanian: fýga
  • Danish: fyge (“to be moved by the wind”)
    • Norwegian Bokmål: fyke
• Proto-West Germanic: *feukan:
  • Dutch: fijcken (=fuiken)

From *fūkaną:

• Proto-West Germanic: *fūkan
  • Dutch: fuiken (“to thrust”) (obsolete)
  • German: fauchen (“to hiss”)