Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/unnjalauk

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 *unnjā (“onion”) +‎ *lauk (“leek”).

Noun

*unnjalauk m

1. onion

   Synonym: *unnjā

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*unnjalauk
Genitive	*unnjalaukas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*unnjalauk	*unnjalaukō, *unnjalaukōs
Accusative	*unnjalauk	*unnjalaukā
Genitive	*unnjalaukas	*unnjalaukō
Dative	*unnjalaukē	*unnjalaukum
Instrumental	*unnjalauku	*unnjalaukum

Descendants

• Old English: ynnelēac, ynelēac, ennelēac, enelēac, ennelēc
  • Middle English: hinneleac, henneleac, hynneleac
• Old Saxon: unlōk
• Old High German: ullouh, unilouh
  • Middle High German: ullouch, ulloch
    • Central Franconian: Öllich
      • →? Dutch: ullich, aolike (dialectal)

Further reading

• “ulloch ullach, ulloch” in Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Matthias von Lexer, 3 vols., Leipzig 1872–1878.
• Joseph Bosworth and T. Northcote Toller (1898) “enneleác”, in An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Oxford University Press.
• Weijnen, A.A. (2003) “ullich, aolike”, in Etymologisch dialectwoordenboek‎^[1] (in Dutch), The Hague: Sdu Uitgevers, →ISBN, page 376
• “hinne-lēac, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.
• Tiefenbach, Heinrich (2010) “UNLÔK”, in Altsächsisches Handwörterbuch, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co., →DOI, →ISBN, page 428.