Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/jeuką

This Proto-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-Germanic

Etymology

From Proto-Indo-European *yéwgom. Cognate with Ancient Greek Ancient Greek ζεῦγος (zeûgos, “yoke (of beasts), pair, team”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈjeu̯.kɑ̃/

Noun

*jeuką n[1]

  1. (West Germanic) team of draft animals, pair of oxen

Inflection

Declension of *jeuką (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *jeuką *jeukō
vocative *jeuką *jeukō
accusative *jeuką *jeukō
genitive *jeukas, *jiukis *jeukǫ̂
dative *jeukai *jeukamaz
instrumental *jeukō *jeukamiz
  • *jaukijaz
  • *juką
  • *jukô
    • Old Norse: oki (“cross-piece”), ⇒ jafnoki (“even match”)
  • *jukǭ
  • *jukuzī

Descendants

Although the German reflex has different meaning, it must have gone through an intermediate stage of "yoked animals" > "area that a yoke can plow", just as English acre(age) stands for the specific "area that a yoke can plow".

  • Proto-West Germanic: *jeuk
    • Old High German: *jiuh
      • Middle High German: jiuch (“acreage”)

References

  1. ^ Kroonen, Guus (2013) “*juka-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 274
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