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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fak

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

Presumably from Proto-Germanic *faką, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to fix, fasten”), with the intermediatory meaning of “fixed divisions”, compare Latin pāgus (“division, district”).[1][2]

Noun

*fak n[1][3]

  1. division, compartment
  2. period, interval

Inflection
Neuter a-stem
Singular
Nominative *fak
Genitive *fakas
Singular Plural
Nominative *fak *faku
Accusative *fak *faku
Genitive *fakas *fakō
Dative *fakē *fakum
Instrumental *faku *fakum

Descendants
  • Old English: fæc, fec
  • Old Frisian: fak, fek
    • Saterland Frisian: Fäk
    • West Frisian: fek
  • Old Saxon: fac, fak
    • Middle Low German: vak
      • German Low German: Fack
      • → Danish: fag
        • → Icelandic: fag
      • → Norwegian:
        • Norwegian Bokmål: fag
        • Norwegian Nynorsk: fag
      • → Swedish: fack
  • Old Dutch: *fak
  • Old High German: fah

References
  1. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Fach”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 197: “wg. *faka-”
  2. Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*faka-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 124
  3. Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 194: “PWGmc *fak”
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