Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/plukkōną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Possibly represents a Pre-Germanic *blu(gʰ/ǵʰ)néh₂-. Alternatively, borrowed from Vulgar Latin *pilūc(i)cāre,[1] but the historical evidence is shaky.[2]
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*plukkōną
- to pluck, pull out or off
Inflection
[edit]The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, *plukk- against *plug-.
Conjugation of *plukkōną (weak class 2)
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *plukkōn
- Old Norse: plukka, plokka (possibly borrowed from Low German)
References
[edit]- Kroonen, Guus (2013) Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN
- ^ “pflücken” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache
- ^ Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “pluck”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.