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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/parruk

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

Unknown; possibly from *parrō, variant of *sparrō (“bar, beam”)[1] (whence *sparrijan (“to bar, block”)), +‎ *-uk. Compare also Proto-Germanic *barō (“beam, bar, barrier”). Alternatively borrowed from Medieval Latin parricus (“fence, enclosure”),[2] instead of the other way around.

Noun

*parruk m

  1. enclosure
  2. pen (for animals)

Declension
Masculine a-stem
Singular
Nominative *parruk
Genitive *parrukas
Singular Plural
Nominative *parruk *parrukō, *parrukōs
Accusative *parruk *parrukā
Genitive *parrukas *parrukō
Dative *parrukē *parrukum
Instrumental *parruku *parrukum

Alternative reconstructions
  • *parrik

Descendants
  • Old English: pearroc, pearruc
    • Middle English: parrok, parrock
  • Old Saxon: *parrak, *perrik
    • Middle Low German: park, perk
      • German Low German: Park
    • → Old Norse: *parrak (alternatively from Old English[3])
      • Icelandic: *parrak
        • ⇒ Icelandic: parraka
  • Old Dutch: *parrik, parc, (in placenames) park, perk
    • Middle Dutch: parric, perric, paerc, perc, parc (influenced by Old French parc)
  • Old High German: pfarrih, pferrih
    • Middle High German: pferrich, pherrich
  • →? Medieval Latin: parricus (see there for further descendants)

References
  1. Philippa, Marlies, Debrabandere, Frans, Quak, Arend, Schoonheim, Tanneke, van der Sijs, Nicoline (2003–2009) “park”, in Etymologisch woordenboek van het Nederlands‎ (in Dutch), Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press
  2. Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Pferch”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, pages 539-540
  3. Hellquist, Elof (1922) “Parak”, in Svensk etymologisk ordbok [Swedish etymological dictionary]‎ (in Swedish), Lund: C. W. K. Gleerups förlag, page 483: “laan fra ags. pearroc”
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