Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/anadrekō

This Proto-West 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-West Germanic

Etymology

From *anad (“duck”) +‎ *rekō (“king, ruler, leader”), from Proto-Germanic *rekô.

Noun

*anadrekō m

1. male duck, drake

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*anadrekō
Genitive	*anadrikini, *anadrekan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*anadrekō	*anadrekan
Accusative	*anadrekan	*anadrekan
Genitive	*anadrikini, *anadrekan	*anadrekanō
Dative	*anadrikini, *anadrekan	*anadrekum
Instrumental	*anadrikini, *anadrekan	*anadrekum

Descendants

• Old English: *andraca, *draca
  • Middle English: drake
    • English: drake
    • Scots: drake
• Old Frisian: *enderka
  • North Frisian:

    Söl'ring: En'erk (possibly borrowed from Danish)

  • West Frisian: jerke, jerk
• Old Saxon: *anadreko, *anadrako
  • Middle Low German: āntreke, āntdrāke, āndrake, ānderik, ēnderik
    • Low German: Drake, Draak
    • → Danish: andrik
    • → Swedish: anddrake
• Old Dutch: *enedreko, *anadrako
  • Middle Dutch: andrake
    • Dutch: draak
• Old High German: anutrehho, anutrecho
  • Middle High German: antreche, antrach, antreich, antrech, entrech, entreich
    • Alemannic German: Antrech, Trech, Rech
    • Central Franconian:
      • Hunsrik: Antrich
    • East Central German:
      • Thuringian: Drache
    • German: Enterich