Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/prakkōn

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

Unclear, there are no known cognates outside Germanic. Kroonen reconstructs Proto-Germanic *prakkōną an iterative verb from Proto-Indo-European *brogʰ-néh₂-ti, and suggests a connection with *prangan (“to press”).^[1]

Verb

*prakkōn

to press

Inflection

Class 2 weak
Infinitive	*prakkōn
1st sg. past	*prakkōdā
Infinitive	*prakkōn
Genitive infin.	*prakkōnijas
Dative infin.	*prakkōnijē
Instrum. infin.	*prakkōniju
Indicative	Present	Past
1st singular	*prakkō	*prakkōdā
2nd singular	*prakkōs	prakkōdēs, prakkōdōs
3rd singular	*prakkōþ	prakkōdē, prakkōdā
1st plural	*prakkōm	*prakkōdum
2nd plural	*prakkōþ	*prakkōdud
3rd plural	*prakkōnþ	*prakkōdun
Subjunctive	Present	Past
1st singular	*prakkō	*prakkōdī
2nd singular	*prakkōs	*prakkōdī
3rd singular	*prakkō	*prakkōdī
1st plural	*prakkōm	*prakkōdīm
2nd plural	*prakkōþ	*prakkōdīd
3rd plural	*prakkōn	*prakkōdīn
Imperative	Present
Singular	*prakkō
Plural	*prakkōþ
	Present	Past
Participle	*prakkōndī	*prakkōd

Descendants

Old Saxon: *prakkōn
- Middle Low German: *pracken
  - Low German: prakken
  - → Norwegian:
    → Norwegian Bokmål: prakke
    
    → Norwegian Nynorsk: prakka, prakke
  - → Swedish: pracka
  - → Danish: prakke
Old Dutch: *prakkon
- Middle Dutch: pracken
  - Dutch: prakken

References

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*prakkōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 399

[1] Guus Kroonen (2013) “*prakkōn-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎, Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 399

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