Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/drakō

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.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin dracō (“dragon”).

Noun

*drakō m^[1]

dragon

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*drakō
Genitive	drakini, drakan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*drakō	*drakan
Accusative	*drakan	*drakan
Genitive	drakini, drakan	*drakanō
Dative	drakini, drakan	*drakum
Instrumental	drakini, drakan	*drakum

Descendants

Old English: draca
- Middle English: drake
  - English: drake
Old Frisian:
- West Frisian: draak (possibly borrowed from Dutch)
Old Saxon:
- Middle Low German:
  - → Old Norse: dreki
    - Icelandic: dreki
    - Faroese: dreki
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: drake; (dialectal) drakkji, dragje, draga
    - Norwegian Bokmål: drake
    - Elfdalian: dratji
    - Old Swedish: draki
      - Swedish: drake
    - Old Danish: draghæ
      - Danish: drage
        Norwegian Bokmål: drage
Old Dutch: *draka
- Middle Dutch: drāke
  - Dutch: draak
    - Afrikaans: draak
  - Limburgish: draagk, draogk
  - West Flemish: droake
Old High German: trahho, tracho, trakko, tracko
- Middle High German: trache
  - Alemannic German: Traach
  - Bavarian: Drack
  - German: Drache
  - Luxembourgish: Draach
  - Rhine Franconian:
    Pennsylvania German: Drach
  - Vilamovian: draoch

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136: “PWGmc *drakō”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 136: “PWGmc *drakō”

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