Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/plōgaz
Proto-Germanic
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Of disputed origin.
Possibly borrowed from Proto-Celtic *ɸlowyos, *ɸlowī (“rudder”), from Proto-Indo-European *plów-yo-s (“ship”), from the root *plew- (“to fly, flow, run”). Compare Albanian plor (“prow of a boat; ploughshare”).[1]
Alinei also mentions the Latin plaumoratum (Pliny the Elder, Naturalis historia 18.69), with the second element possibly relating to the family of Latin rota, Proto-Celtic *rotos and Proto-Germanic *raþą (“wheel”). Guus Kroonen has suggested a connection of the Germanic and the Latin words to *plehan (“to take responsibility, care”) (“to care for one’s life” > “to plow”); compare Old High German pfluog (“livelihood”) and Icelandic plógur, plóg (“profit”), which could nevertheless point as well to the opposite morpho-semantic evolution. Otherwise he proposes a connection with Proto-Germanic *plag/kkōn- (“rag, sod”), which seems a bit far-fetched.[2]
Noun
[edit]*plōgaz m[2]
Inflection
[edit]masculine a-stemDeclension of *plōgaz (masculine a-stem) | |||
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singular | plural | ||
nominative | *plōgaz | *plōgōz, *plōgōs | |
vocative | *plōg | *plōgōz, *plōgōs | |
accusative | *plōgą | *plōganz | |
genitive | *plōgas, *plōgis | *plōgǫ̂ | |
dative | *plōgai | *plōgamaz | |
instrumental | *plōgō | *plōgamiz |
Descendants
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Alinei, Mario (2000), Origini delle lingue d’Europa, vol. 2, Bologna: Il Mulino, page 567 ff.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 Guus Kroonen (2013) “*plōga-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 398
- ^ "ploum", in Charles du Fresne du Cange’s Glossarium Mediæ et Infimæ Latinitatis (augmented edition with additions by D. P. Carpenterius, Adelungius and others, edited by Léopold Favre, 1883–1887)