Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/pūkô

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

Uncertain. Possibly related to *spōk, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāuǵ-, *(s)pāug- (“brilliance; spectre”) with unusually late loss of the s-mobile (after Grimm's law), but this still suffers other phonetic problems as well as probably semantic ones. Perhaps of substrate origin, or imitative like English boo.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈpuː.kɔːː/

Noun

*pūkô m

1. hunchback, goblin, spook

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *pūkô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*pūkô	*pūkaniz
vocative	*pūkô	*pūkaniz
accusative	*pūkanų	*pūkanunz
genitive	*pūkiniz	*pūkanǫ̂
dative	*pūkini	*pūkammaz
instrumental	*pūkinē	*pūkammiz

Descendants

• Proto-West Germanic: *pūkō
  • Old English: pūca
    • Middle English: pouke, ppoke, powke, puke
      • English: puck, Puck
        • >? English: pug
    • →? Cornish: bucca
      • → English: bucca
    • → Welsh: pwca
  • Old Frisian: *pūka
    • Saterland Frisian: Puk
  • >? Dutch: peuk, puk
• Old Norse: púki
  • Icelandic: púki
  • Faroese: púki
  • Norwegian: pokker
  • Old Swedish: pūke
    • Swedish: puke; ⇒ skråpuke, ⇒ skråpuk
  • Danish: pokker
  • → Latvian: pūķis
  • →? Old Irish: púca
    • Irish: púca
      • →? Cornish: bucca
        • → English: bucca
      • → English: pooka, puka