Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/warki

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 *warkiz.

Noun

*warki m

1. pain

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*warki
Genitive	*warkī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*warki	*warkī
Accusative	*warki	*warkī
Genitive	*warkī	*warkijō
Dative	*warkī	*warkim, *warkijum
Instrumental	*warkī	*warkim, *warkijum

Descendants

• Old English: wærc, werc, weorc, wræc, wærċ
  • Middle English: werk, warch
    • Scots: wark, wrak
    • English: wark
• Old Saxon: werk n (“pain”) (conflated with descendant of Proto-West Germanic *werk)