Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/fak

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

Presumably from Proto-Germanic *faką, perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *peh₂ǵ- (“to fix, fasten”), with the intermediatory meaning of “fixed divisions”, compare Latin pāgus (“division, district”).^[1]^[2]

Noun

*fak n^[1]^[3]

division, compartment
period, interval

Inflection

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*fak
Genitive	*fakas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*fak	*faku
Accusative	*fak	*faku
Genitive	*fakas	*fakō
Dative	*fakē	*fakum
Instrumental	*faku	*fakum

Descendants

Old English: fæc, fec
- Middle English: fæc, fec
  - English: fack
  - Scots: faik, feck, fauk
Old Frisian: fak, fek
- Saterland Frisian: Fäk
- West Frisian: fek
Old Saxon: fac, fak
- Middle Low German: vak
  - German Low German: Fack
  - → Danish: fag
    - → Icelandic: fag
  - → Norwegian:
    - Norwegian Bokmål: fag
    - Norwegian Nynorsk: fag
  - → Swedish: fack
Old Dutch: *fak
- Middle Dutch: vac
  - Dutch: vak
    - Afrikaans: vak
    - → Indonesian: vak
Old High German: fah
- Middle High German: vach
  - German: Fach
    - → English: Fach
    - → Esperanto: fako
    - → Kashubian: fach
    - → Luxembourgish: Fach
    - → Polish: fach
  - Yiddish: פֿאַך (fakh)

References

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Fach”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 197: “wg. *faka-”
^ Guus Kroonen (2013) “*faka-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 124
^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 194: “PWGmc *fak”

[EWddS-1] 1.0 ^1.1 Friedrich Kluge (1989) “Fach”, in Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache [Etymological Dictionary of the German Language] (in German), 22nd edition, Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, →ISBN, page 197: “wg. *faka-”

[2] Guus Kroonen (2013) “*faka-”, in Alexander Lubotsky, editor, Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11)‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 124

[3] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 194: “PWGmc *fak”

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