Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/krappō

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

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *greb-, perhaps cognate with Armenian կարթ (kartʻ, “fish-hook”), Lithuanian gárbana (“lock of hair”).^[1]

Noun

*krappō m

a hook

Declension

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*krappō
Genitive	krappini, krappan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*krappō	*krappan
Accusative	*krappan	*krappan
Genitive	krappini, krappan	*krappanō
Dative	krappini, krappan	*krappum
Instrumental	krappini, krappan	*krappum

Descendants

Old Saxon: krappo
- Middle Low German: krappe, kroppe, kropp, krop
Old Dutch: *krappo
- Middle Dutch: crappe
  - Dutch: krap
Old High German: krapho, kraffo, krapfo
- Middle High German: krapfe
  - Alemannic German: Chrapfe
  - German: Krapfe, Krapfen
- → Italian: graffa
→ Old French: grappe (see there for further descendants)
→⇒ Vulgar Latin: *crappalt, *crapalt
- Old French: crapaut, crapot
  - Middle French: crapuad
    - French: crapaud
      - → English: crapaud
- Occitan: grapaut
- Catalan: grapal, gripal, gripau

References

^ Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “kartʿ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 354

[1] Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “kartʿ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 354

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