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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/pakkô

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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

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Etymology

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Unknown. Likely from a pre-Germanic substrate language,[1] due to phonetic irregularities between the root's relatives in other languages, as well as its restriction to western branches of Indo-European. Said relatives include Middle Welsh beich (load, cargo), Latin bāiulus (porter, carrier) (whence Spanish baga (load)),[2] and perhaps fascis (bundle), Ancient Greek φάκελος (phákelos, bundle).

Pronunciation

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Noun

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*pakkô m

  1. bundle; pack; package

Inflection

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masculine an-stemDeclension of *pakkô (masculine an-stem)
singular plural
nominative *pakkô *pakkaniz
vocative *pakkô *pakkaniz
accusative *pakkanų *pakkanunz
genitive *pakkiniz *pakkanǫ̂
dative *pakkini *pakkammaz
instrumental *pakkinē *pakkammiz

Descendants

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References

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  1. ^ E.C. Polomé (1989), ‘Substrate lexicon in Germanic,’ NOWELE 14, 53-73, p. 60-63
  2. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*pakka-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 396