Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/plaggą

See also: Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/plakkju

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

Alternative forms

*plakką, *plakkô

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps a borrowing from an unknown pre-Germanic, but possibly Indo-European, substrate language in which the p has not yet undergone Grimm's law, and distantly related to *flahaną (“to flay, skin”) or *flehtaną (“to weave, plait”).[1]

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈplɑɡ.ɡɑ̃/

Noun

*plaggą n

a piece of cloth or fabric
a patch

Inflection

neuter a-stemDeclension of *plaggą (neuter a-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*plaggą	*plaggō
vocative	*plaggą	*plaggō
accusative	*plaggą	*plaggō
genitive	plaggas, plaggis	*plaggǫ̂
dative	*plaggai	*plaggamaz
instrumental	*plaggō	*plaggamiz

Related terms

*plagilaz
*plajjaną
*plakjō
*plehtō

Descendants

Old English: *plæcca; *plecc
- Middle English: plack; plek, pleck; *placche, platch
  - Scots: platch
  - English: plack, pleck; platch, patch
Old Frisian: *plakka
- Saterland Frisian: Plakke, Plak
- West Frisian: plak
Old Saxon: *plakko; *plekkia
- Middle Low German: plagge; placke; plekke, plecke, plek
  - Low German: Plagge, Plack, Plak, Plakke; Plek
  - → German: Plagge
Old Dutch: *plakko; *plekka
- Middle Dutch: plagge; placke; plecke; placken
  - Dutch: plag; plak; plek
  - → Old French: plaquier, plaquer
    - Middle French: plaquer
      - French: plaquer
    - ⇒ Middle French: plaque
      - French: plaque
        → English: plaque
  - →⇒ Old French: placard
    - Middle French: placard
      - French: placard
    - → Middle English: placard
      - English: placard
    - → Middle Dutch: placaerd, plackaet
      - → Dutch: plakkaat
  - → Medieval Latin: placca
    - → Italian: placca
  - → Scots: plak, plack
Old High German: *phlacko, *phlaggo, (Central German) *plaggo
- Middle High German: pflacke, placke
  - German: Placken
  - Luxembourgish: Plak, Plack (latter merged with French plaque)
    - ⇒ Luxembourgish: plakeg
Old Norse: plagg
- Icelandic: plagg
- Faroese: plagg
- Norwegian: plagg
- Swedish: plagg
- → Scots: plag

References

van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “plag”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute

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[1] van der Sijs, Nicoline, editor (2010), “plag”, in Etymologiebank, Meertens Institute