Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/froggō

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.

Cognate with Old Norse frauðr, frauki (“frog”), both perhaps from Proto-Germanic n-stem paradigm *fraugô ~ *frukkaz, from pre-Proto-Germanic *prougʰ-ō ~ *prugʰ-nos,^[1] from Proto-Indo-European *prewgʰ- (“to leap”), possibly extended from *prew- (“to jump”); compare Proto-Slavic *prygati (“to jump”), though Kroonen is skeptical of such a connection. See also Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”).^[1]

*froggō m^[1]

1. frog

   Synonym: *frosk

• *fruggjō

• Old English: frocga, frogga, froga
  • Middle English: frogge, vrogge, frugge
    • English: frog, frock (dialectal) (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: frog, froig
    • → Welsh: broga
• Old Saxon: *froggo, *fruggio
  • >? Middle Low German: pugge, pogge, poge (possibly conflated with Middle Low German padde (“toad”))
  • German Low German: Pogge, Pogg
    • → Saterland Frisian: Poage
• Old Dutch: *froggo
  • >? Middle Dutch: pogge, pog (possibly conflated with Middle Dutch padde (“toad”))
    • → West Frisian: pogge, pôge