Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/froggō

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

Cognate with Old Norse frauðr, frauki (“frog”), both perhaps from Proto-Germanic n-stem paradigm *fraugô ~ *frukkaz, from pre-Proto-Germanic *prougʰ-ō ~ *prugʰ-nos, from Proto-Indo-European *prewgʰ- (“to leap”), possibly extended from *prew- (“to jump”); compare Proto-Slavic *prygati (“to jump”), though Kroonen is skeptical of such a connection. See also Proto-Germanic *fruskaz (“frog”).

Noun

*froggō m

1. frog

   Synonym: *frosk

Inflection

Masculine an-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*froggō
Genitive	*fruggini, *froggan
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*froggō	*froggan
Accusative	*froggan	*froggan
Genitive	*fruggini, *froggan	*frogganō
Dative	*fruggini, *froggan	*froggum
Instrumental	*fruggini, *froggan	*froggum

Alternative reconstructions

• *fruggjō

Descendants

• Old English: frocga, frogga, froga
  • Middle English: frogge, vrogge, frugge
    • English: frog, frock (dialectal), frosk (dialectal), frosh (dialectal) (see there for further descendants)
    • Scots: frog, froig
    • → Welsh: broga
• Old Saxon: *froggo, *fruggio
  • >? Middle Low German: pugge, pogge, poge (possibly conflated with Middle Low German padde (“toad”))
  • German Low German: Pogge, Pogg
    • → Saterland Frisian: Poage
• Old Dutch: *froggo
  • >? Middle Dutch: pogge, pog (possibly conflated with Middle Dutch padde (“toad”))
    • → West Frisian: pogge, pôge