Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plakkju

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/plaggą

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

Unknown; possibly borrowed from a substrate language.

Noun

*plakkju f

1. spot, stain
2. patch, place

Inflection

ō-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*plakkju
Genitive	*plakkjā
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*plakkju	*plakkjō
Accusative	*plakkjā	*plakkjā
Genitive	*plakkjā	*plakkjō
Dative	*plakkjē	*plakkjōm, *plakkjum
Instrumental	*plakkju	*plakkjōm, *plakkjum

Descendants

• Old English: *plæċċ
  • Middle English: *placche, plecche
    • ⇒? Middle English: pacche
      • English: patch
  • >? Middle English: placche (attested in plural as placchis (“splinters, fragments, pieces”))
• Old Frisian: *plekk
  • Saterland Frisian: Pläk
  • West Frisian: plak, plek (also possibly a borrowing from Dutch)
• Old Saxon: *plekkia
  • Middle Low German: plecke
• Old Dutch: *plekka
  • Middle Dutch: plecke, pleecke, pleke
    • Dutch: plek
    • → Middle English: plecke
      • English: pleck