Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/rukkōną

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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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From Pre-Germanic *Hruknéh₂-, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *h₃rewk- (to dig up), from *Hrew-. Cognate with Latin runcō (to weed, verb).

Pronunciation

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Verb

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*rukkōną[1]

  1. to move, move back and forth, rock

Inflection

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Descendants

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The original paradigm of *rukk- against *rug- allowed for different leveling among dialects.

References

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  1. ^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*rukk/gōn- 1”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 417