Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bakiz

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *bʰog-i-s, from *bʰog- (“flowing water, brook, stream”). Cognate with Polish bagno (“swamp, bog, marsh”).

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈbɑ.kiz/

Noun

*bakiz f [1]

brook, stream
beach, strand

Inflection

i-stemDeclension of *bakiz (i-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*bakiz	*bakīz
vocative	*baki	*bakīz
accusative	*bakį	*bakinz
genitive	*bakīz	*bakjǫ̂
dative	*bakī	*bakimaz
instrumental	*bakī	*bakimiz

Descendants

Old English: bæċ; bæċe, beċe
- Middle English: bach, bæch, bæcch, beshe, beche
  - English: beach
Old Saxon: *bak, beki
- Middle Low German: bēke, bach
  - German Low German: Beek
  - Plautdietsch: Bach
  - → German: -beck
Old Dutch: beki
- Middle Dutch: bēke
  - Dutch: beek
Old High German: bah
- Middle High German: bach
  - German: Bach
  - Luxembourgish: Baach
Old Norse: bekkr
- Icelandic: bekkur
- Norwegian Bokmål: bekk
- Norwegian Nynorsk: bekk
- Old Swedish: bækker
  - Swedish: bäck
- Danish: bæk
  - Danish: bæk
- → Old English: bæc, becc (mostly in placenames)
  - Middle English: bec, becc
    - Scots: bek, bekk
    - English: beck
- → Norman: [Term?]
  - Norman: -bec (in placenames)
  - Norman: bec

References

Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*bakja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 48

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[1] Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*bakja-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, page 48