Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/auk

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 Proto-Germanic *auk.

Adverb

*auk

1. also, too

Descendants

• Old English: ēac, ek, ec — Mercian, æac
  • Middle English: ek, eek, eke
    • Scots: eik, ek
    • English: eke
    • ⇒ Middle English: ekename
      • ⇒ English: nickname (via rebracketing)
• Old Frisian: āk
  • North Frisian:

    Föhr-Amrum: uk

  • Saterland Frisian: uk, ook
  • West Frisian: ek
• Old Saxon: ōk
  • Middle Low German: ôk
    • Dutch Low Saxon: ok, ook
    • German Low German: ok, auk, ock, ohk, ook
    • Plautdietsch: uk
• Old Dutch: ōk, ouk, ouch
  • Middle Dutch: ooc
    • Dutch: ook
      • Afrikaans: ook
      • Berbice Creole Dutch: oko
      • Jersey Dutch: ôk
      • Negerhollands: ook
      • Petjo: ook
      • Skepi Creole Dutch: oak
    • West Flemish: wok
• Old High German: ouh
  • Middle High German: ouch
    • Alemannic German: au
    • Cimbrian: òch
    • Central Franconian:
      • Hunsrik: aach
      • Luxembourgish: och
    • German: auch
    • Rhine Franconian:
      • Pennsylvania German: aa
    • Yiddish: אויך (oykh)