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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/krappō

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

Uncertain; possibly from Proto-Indo-European *greb-, perhaps cognate with Armenian կարթ (kartʻ, “fish-hook”), Lithuanian gárbana (“lock of hair”).[1]

Noun

*krappō m

  1. a hook

Declension
Masculine an-stem
Singular
Nominative *krappō
Genitive *krappini, *krappan
Singular Plural
Nominative *krappō *krappan
Accusative *krappan *krappan
Genitive *krappini, *krappan *krappanō
Dative *krappini, *krappan *krappum
Instrumental *krappini, *krappan *krappum

Descendants
  • Old Saxon: krappo
  • Old Dutch: *krappo
  • Old High German: krapho, kraffo, krapfo
  • → Old French: grappe (see there for further descendants)
  • →⇒ Vulgar Latin: *crappalt, *crapalt
    • Old French: crapaut, crapot
    • Occitan: grapaut
    • Catalan: grapal, gripal, gripau

References
  1. Martirosyan, Hrach (2010) “kartʿ”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Armenian Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 8), Leiden and Boston: Brill, page 354
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