Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skupą

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

Nominal formation related to *skuppōną (“to mock, scoff”), of uncertain further origin; see there for more.^[1]

Noun

*skupą n

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *skupą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*skupą	*skupō
vocative	*skupą	*skupō
accusative	*skupą	*skupō
genitive	skupas, skupis	*skupǫ̂
dative	*skupai	*skupamaz
instrumental	*skupō	*skupamiz

Related terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *skop
- >? Old Frisian: skof
  - West Frisian: schof (obsolete)
  - →? Middle English: skoffe, scof (equally possibly borrowed from Old Danish)
    - English: scoff
    - Scots: skoffe, scoff, skuff
- Old Dutch: *scop
  - Middle Dutch: scop, schop
- ⇒ Proto-West Germanic: *skop m (“poet”)
  - Old English: sċop, sċeop
    - → English: scop (learned)
  - Old Saxon: *skop
    - ⇒ Old Saxon: skoplīko (adverb)
  - Old High German: skopf, scoph
    - Middle High German: schopf, schof
Old Norse: skop
- Icelandic: skop
- >? Old Danish: skof, skuf

References

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*skupp/bōn- 2 w.v. 'to mock'”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 450-1: “*skup(p)a- / *skuffa-”

[1] Guus Kroonen (2013) “*skupp/bōn- 2 w.v. 'to mock'”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, pages 450-1: “*skup(p)a- / *skuffa-”

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