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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kulukaz

This Proto-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-Germanic

Alternative forms
  • *kulkaz

Etymology

From a base derived from Proto-Indo-European *gel-, *gʷel- (“to devour; gullet”) +‎ *-ukaz (diminutive suffix).

Noun

*kulukaz m

  1. a hollow, depression, or well
  2. trench, gully; pit

Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *kulukaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *kulukaz *kulukōz, *kulukōs
vocative *kuluk *kulukōz, *kulukōs
accusative *kuluką *kulukanz
genitive *kulukas, *kulukis *kulukǫ̂
dative *kulukai *kulukamaz
instrumental *kulukō *kulukamiz

Descendants
  • Proto-West Germanic: *kolk, *koluk
    • Old English: *colc
      • >? Middle English: colk
        • >? English: coke
        • ⇒? Middle English: colkenen (“to gasp, gulp”)
          • >? Scots: cowk (“to retch, vomit”)
    • Old Frisian: kolk
      • Saterland Frisian: Kolk
      • West Frisian: kolk
    • Old Saxon: *kolk
      • Middle Low German: kolk, kulk
        • German Low German: Kolk
        • → Middle High German: kolc
          • German: Kolk
            • ⇒ German: kolken (“to gulp”), (dialectal) kölken, kolksen (“to vomit”)
        • →⇒ Danish: kulke (“to swallow, gulp”)
    • Old Dutch: *kolk
      • Middle Dutch: colc, culc, colck
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