Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/silikō

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

Borrowed from Medieval Latin sirica, serica (“silk fabric”), from Late Latin sērica (“silk”), along side *seluk, *seruk. The change -r- to -l- is unexplained.

Noun

*silikō m

1. silk

   Synonyms: *seluk, *sīdā

2. silk garments

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*silikō
Genitive	*silikini, *silikan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*silikō	*silikan
Accusative	*silikan	*silikan
Genitive	*silikini, *silikan	*silikanō
Dative	*silikini, *silikan	*silikum
Instrumental	*silikini, *silikan	*silikum

Descendants

• Old Saxon: siliko
  • → Old Norse: silki
    • Icelandic: silki
    • Faroese: silki
    • Norwegian Bokmål: silke
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: silke
    • Swedish: silke
    • Danish: silke
    • → Northern Sami: silki
• Old High German: silihho
  • → Latvian: šilks (dialectal)
  • → Old East Slavic: шьлкъ (šĭlkŭ)
    • Belarusian: шоўк (šoŭk)
    • Russian: шёлк (šolk), (dialectal) шулк (šulk) (see there for further descendants)
    • Ukrainian: шовк (šovk)
  • → Old Lithuanian:
    • Lithuanian: šil̃kas
    • Samogitian: sėlks
  • → Old Prussian: silkas