Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/alinabugô

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

Etymology

From *alinō (“ell, ulna, forearm”) +‎ *bugô (“bend, bow”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɑl.in.bu.ɣɔːː/

Noun

*alinabugô m

1. elbow

Inflection

masculine an-stemDeclension of *alinabugô (masculine an-stem)
	singular	plural
nominative	*alinabugô	*alinabuganiz
vocative	*alinabugô	*alinabuganiz
accusative	*alinabuganų	*alinabuganunz
genitive	*alinabuginiz	*alinabuganǫ̂
dative	*alinabugini	*alinabugammaz
instrumental	*alinabuginē	*alinabugammiz

Descendants

• Old English: elnboga, elboga
  • Middle English: *elboghe, *elboȝe, elbowe
    • English: elbow
    • Scots: elbuck (earlier elbok)
    • Yola: helbough, helboge
• Old Frisian: *elboga
  • Saterland Frisian: Älbooge
• Old Saxon: *elinbogo
  • Middle Low German: ellebōge
    • German Low German: Ellebage
    • Plautdietsch: Alboagen
• Old Dutch: *elinbogo
  • Middle Dutch: ellenbōge, ellenbōghe
    • Dutch: elleboog, ellenboog (nonstandard)
      • Afrikaans: elmboog
      • → Papiamentu: èlebog, èlembog, elleboog
• Old High German: elinbogo
  • Middle High German: elenboge
    • German: Ellenboge, Ellbogen, Ellenbogen
    • Luxembourgish: Ielebou
    • Vilamovian: ełböga
    • Yiddish: עלנבויגן (elnboygn)
• Old Norse: ǫlnbogi, alnbogi, albogi, ǫlbogi
  • Icelandic: olnbogi, olbogi
  • Faroese: albogi, albógvi
  • Norwegian:
    • Bokmål: albue
    • Norwegian Nynorsk: olboge
  • Old Swedish: *alnboghi, alboghi
    • Swedish: almboge, armbåge
  • Old Danish: almboghæ
    • Danish: albue, almbue, armbue
  • Gutnish: albuge, armbuge
  • Elfdalian: abugi
  • Scanian: alnbuğe