Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/lahtukā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed words 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

Borrowed from Latin *ladduca, lattuca, lactūca.

Noun

*lahtukā f

lettuce

Inflection

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*lahtukā
Genitive	*lahtukōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*lahtukā	*lahtukōn
Accusative	*lahtukōn	*lahtukōn
Genitive	*lahtukōn	*lahtukōnō
Dative	*lahtukōn	*lahtukōm
Instrumental	*lahtukōn	*lahtukōm

Alternative reconstructions

*lattukā, *laddukā

Descendants

Old English: lactuċe f, lactuċ, leāhtuċ, lactuċa m
- Middle English: letuse, letus, letys, letuce, letuze, letes, letows, letyse (corrupted by Old French)
  - English: lettuce
  - Scots: lettuce, lattice
  - → Welsh: letys
Old Saxon: lodika, lodeka, lattika
- Middle Low German: lādeke, ladeke, lādike, laddeke, lēdeke, loddeke, lōdeke, lödike, löddike, lattik, lattike, latik, lattuke, latuk
  - German Low German: Lottche
  - Plautdietsch: Lottke
Old Dutch: *ladika, *lahtika
- Middle Dutch: lachteke, lacteke, ladicke, ladeke, ledicke, ladich, ladik, ladike
Old High German: lattuhha, lattucha, latihha, laktuh, lattuh, latih, letih
- Middle High German: latech, latche, leteche, latouch, lattuoch, latūn, lactuca, lactihha, lactūke
  - German: Lattich
- → Polish: laktuka
  - → Belarusian: лату́к (latúk)
  - → Ukrainian: лату́к (latúk)
  - → Russian: лату́к (latúk)

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.