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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/dalkaz

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

Alternative forms
  • *dulkaz

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *dʰalg-, *dʰalk- (“pricking, stabbing, or cutting tool; needle, pin; knife”), from Proto-Indo-European *dʰelg-, *dʰelk- (“to stick, prick, stab”). Cognate with Lithuanian dilgus (“prickly”), Latin falx (“hook, sickle”), Old Irish delg (“spine, needle”).

Noun

*dalkaz m

  1. pin
  2. the tongue of a buckle; clasp
  3. knife, dagger

Inflection
masculine a-stemDeclension of *dalkaz (masculine a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *dalkaz *dalkōz, *dalkōs
vocative *dalk *dalkōz, *dalkōs
accusative *dalką *dalkanz
genitive *dalkas, *dalkis *dalkǫ̂
dative *dalkai *dalkamaz
instrumental *dalkō *dalkamiz

Descendants
  • Old English: dalc, dolc
  • Old Saxon: *dalk
    • Middle Low German: dolk
      • Low German: Dolk
      • Danish: dolk
      • Swedish: dolk
      • Norwegian: dolk
      • Scots: dowrk, durck, durk
      • English: dork
    • Dutch: dolk
  • Old High German: *tolh
    • Middle High German: tolch (or possibly borrowed from Slavic)
      • German: Tolch, Dolch
      • Middle Low German: dollich
  • Old Norse: dálkr
    • Icelandic: dálkur
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