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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/ankulaz
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *h₂eng- (“joint; to bend”).
Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *ankulaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *ankulaz | *ankulōz, *ankulōs | |
vocative | *ankul | *ankulōz, *ankulōs | |
accusative | *ankulą | *ankulanz | |
genitive | *ankulas, *ankulis | *ankulǫ̂ | |
dative | *ankulai | *ankulamaz | |
instrumental | *ankulō | *ankulamiz |
Descendants
Several of these descendants may have been modified through folk etymology, in which the word was analysed as "on-claw", *ana (“on”) + *klawō (“claw”). An alternative explanation is that they are compounds of *ankulaz with *klawō, or similar terms that were confused with them.
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*ankula-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 29
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