Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/inkô

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *h₁engō, from *h₁eng-. Cognate with Old Church Slavonic ѧꙃа (ędza, “illness, disease”) (whence Serbo-Croatian је́за/jéza (“horror, shiver”), Slovene jẹ́za (“anger”) and dialectal Bulgarian енза (enza, “sickness”)), Lithuanian éngti (“to press, strangle”).^[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈiŋ.kɔːː/

Noun

*inkô m

grief, ache, regret

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *inkô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*inkô	*inkaniz
vocative	*inkô	*inkaniz
accusative	*inkanų	*inkanunz
genitive	*inkiniz	*inkanǫ̂
dative	*inkini	*inkammaz
instrumental	*inkinē	*inkammiz

Related terms

Descendants

Proto-West Germanic: *inkō
- Old English: inca
  - Middle English: inke
    - ⇒ Middle English: inklen, inclen
      - English: inkle
      - ⇒ Middle English: *ynklyng, nyngkiling
        English: inkling
        Scots: inklin
- ⇒ Old Frisian: ink, jinc (“irritated”, adj)
Old Norse: ekki
- Icelandic: ekki
- Faroese: ekki

References

^ Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

[1] Guus Kroonen (2013) Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN

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