Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/munik

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

Borrowed from Late Latin monicus.

Noun

*munik m

1. (Christianity) monk

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*munik
Genitive	*munikas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*munik	*munikō, *munikōs
Accusative	*munik	*munikā
Genitive	*munikas	*munikō
Dative	*munikē	*munikum
Instrumental	*muniku	*munikum

Derived terms

• *munikō
  • Old Saxon: *muniko
    • Middle Low German: mȫnik, monneke, monnke
  • Old High German: munihho, municho
    • Middle High German: müneche
• *munikōn

Descendants

• Old English: munuc, munec
  • Middle English: monk, monke
    • English: monk
    • Scots: monk, munk, mounk
  • → Old Norse: munkr
    • Danish: munk
    • Icelandic: munkur
    • Faroese: munkur
    • Norwegian: munk
    • Old Swedish: munker, munk
      • Swedish: munk
        • → Finnish: munkki
      • → Estonian: munk
    • → Latvian: mūks
    • → Võro: muuk
• Old Frisian: munek, monink, munik, monik, *mūnits
  • West Frisian: muonts
• Old Saxon: *monik, *munik
  • Middle Low German: mȫnik, mȫnek, mȫnnik, mȫnnek, mȫnk, mȫnnink
• Old Dutch: *monik, *munik
  • Middle Dutch: mōnic, mȫnic, munic, monc, munc, monnic, moenc
    • Dutch: monnik
      • Afrikaans: monnik
    • Limburgish: munnik
• Old High German: munih
  • Middle High German: munich, munch, münch, münech, münich
    • Alemannic German: Mönch
    • German: Mönch
      • → Luxembourgish: Mënch
    • Luxembourgish: Minnech
    • Vilamovian: mynich
  • → Old Church Slavonic: мънихъ (mŭnixŭ)
  • → Old Czech: mnich (see there for further descendants)
  • → Slovene: mních, menih