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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/bunkô

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

Uncertain. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *bʰenǵʰ- (“thick, tight, dense, plump”) (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?) or *bʰe(n)g- (“to bend, bulge”); compare *bankô for the latter. Alternatively related to Albanian bung (“sessile oak”), from Proto-Albanian *bunga, from *bʰewH- (“to grow”).[1]

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈbuŋ.kɔːː/

Noun

*bunkô m

  1. crowd
  2. heap, pile
  3. bump, lump

Declension
Declension of *bunkô (an-stem)
Case Singular Plural
Nominative *bunkô *bunkaniz
Vocative *bunkô *bunkaniz
Accusative *bunkanų *bunkanunz
Genitive *bunkiniz *bunkanǫ̂
Dative *bunkini *bunkammaz
Instrumental *bunkinē *bunkammiz


Descendants
  • Old English: *bunca; *bunċe
    • Middle English: bunche, bonche
      • English: bunch (partially)
      • ⇒ Middle English: bunchy, bonchy
        • ⇒ Middle English: bunchines (“bump, hump, hunch”)
  • Old Frisian: bunka
  • Old Saxon: *bunko
  • Old Dutch: *bunko
  • Old High German: bungo
  • Old Norse: bunki

References
  1. Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*ƀunkōn”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 62
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