Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/bruki

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 *brukiz.

Noun

*bruki m^[1]

break
Synonym: *breku

Inflection

i-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*bruki
Genitive	*brukī
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*bruki	*brukī
Accusative	*bruki	*brukī
Genitive	*brukī	*brukkjō
Dative	*brukī	brukim, brukkjum
Instrumental	*brukī	brukim, brukkjum

Related terms

*brekan

Descendants

Old English: bryċe, briċe
- Middle English: breche
  - English: breach
  - Scots: breach, breiche, bretch, breack
Old Frisian: breke, bretse, breze
- Saterland Frisian: Breek
Old Saxon: bruki
- Middle Low German: bröke, broke
  - German Low German: Bröök, Brook
    - → Swedish: bråk
    - → Danish: brøk
Old Dutch: *bruki
- Middle Dutch: brueke, brōke
  - Dutch: breuk
    - Afrikaans: breuk
    - Negerhollands: breek
    - → Indonesian: patahan (“fault”) (semantic loan)
    - → Indonesian: pecahan (“fraction”) (semantic loan)
    - → Papiamentu: breuk
Old High German: bruh
- Middle High German: bruch
  - German: Bruch
    - → Saterland Frisian: Bruch
  - Hunsrik: Bruch
  - Luxembourgish: Broch
  - Vilamovian: brüch
  - Yiddish: בראָך (brokh)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 209: “PWGmc *bruki”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 209: “PWGmc *bruki”

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