Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/dokkā

This Proto-West 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 Proto-Germanic *dukkǭ.

*dokkā f

1. something round, ball; mass, lump
2. muscle; strength
3. bundle; stook, wisp; skein
4. doll (fashioned out of a bundle of straw or flax)

• Old English: *docce
  • Middle English: *dokke, dok (merger with Old Norse *dokkr)
    • English: dock
    • Scots: dok
  • ⇒? Old English: docga (“stocky breed of dog”) (see there for descendants)
  • ⇒ Old English: fingerdocce
• Old Frisian: *dokke
  • Saterland Frisian: Dokke
  • West Frisian: dok
• Old Saxon: dokka
  • Middle Low German: docke
    • German Low German: Docke, Dock
• Old Dutch: *dokka
  • Middle Dutch: docke
    • Dutch: dok
• Old High German: tokka, tocka
  • Middle High German: tocke
    • German: Docke

Unknown. Perhaps a specialised use of Etymology 1 above, or from Proto-Indo-European *dʰew- (“dark”).

*dokkā f

1. (botany) dock (plant)

   Synonym: *amprō

• Old English: docce
  • Middle English: dokke, docke, dok, doke, dokk
    • English: dock
• Old Saxon: dokka
  • Middle Low German: docke
    • → Old Danish: dokke
• Old Dutch: *docka
  • Middle Dutch: docke
    • Dutch: dokke
• Old High German: tocka
  • Middle High German: tocke
    • German: Docke