Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/tuską

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

Unknown. Kroonen suggests that it could continue earlier *tud-ska-, perhaps with the same suffix seen in *fruskaz (“frog”).[1] Pokorny further derives it from Proto-Indo-European *deh₂w- (“to burn”),[2] but Liberman rejects this as weak conjecture; see further at Old English tadige (“toad”).[3]

Noun

*tuską n[1]

  1. toad

Inflection

Declension of *tuską (neuter a-stem)
singular plural
nominative *tuską *tuskō
vocative *tuską *tuskō
accusative *tuską *tuskō
genitive *tuskas, *tuskis *tuskǫ̂
dative *tuskai *tuskamaz
instrumental *tuskō *tuskamiz

Descendants

  • Proto-West Germanic:
  • Proto-Norse:
    • Old Norse: *tusk, *tosk
      • Swedish: tåssa, tossa
      • Elfdalian: tuosk

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*tuska-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 528
  2. ^ Pokorny, Julius (1959), Indogermanisches etymologisches Wörterbuch [Indo-European Etymological Dictionary] (in German), volume 1, Bern, München: Francke Verlag, pages 179-81
  3. ^ An Analytic Dictionary of the English Etymology: An Introduction. (n.d.). United Kingdom: U of Minnesota Press, p. 206
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