Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/smakku

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

From Proto-Germanic *smakkuz.

Noun

*smakku m

1. taste

Inflection

u-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*smakku
Genitive	*smakkō
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*smakku	*smakkiwi, *smakkō
Accusative	*smakku	*smakkū
Genitive	*smakkō	*smakkiwō
Dative	*smakkiwi, *smakkō	*smakkum
Instrumental	*smakku	*smakkum

Alternative reconstructions

• *smak, *smakk

Derived terms

• *smakēn
• *smakkijan
• *smakō

Descendants

• Old English: smæċ
  • Middle English: smak, smac, smach, smech, ssmak, smacche, smake, smatche, smacc
    • English: smack
    • Scots: smack
      • ⇒? Scots: smick
• Old Frisian: *smak, smekk, smek
  • Saterland Frisian: Smoak
  • West Frisian: smaak
• Old Saxon: *smakk, *smak
  • Middle Low German: smak
    • German Low German: Smakk, Smack
    • → Danish: smag
    • → Norwegian Bokmål: smak
    • → Polish: smak, smaka (Central Greater Poland, Far Masovian)
      • → Belarusian: смак (smak)
      • → Russian: смак (smak)
      • → Ukrainian: смак (smak)
    • → Swedish: smak
    • →? Faroese: smakkur
• Old Dutch: smak
  • Middle Dutch: smac
    • Dutch: smaak (merged with descendant of Proto-West Germanic *smakō)
• Old High German: smak, smac
  • Middle High German: smac, smach
    • German: Schmack
    • Yiddish: שמעק (shmek)
  • ⇒ Old High German: gismac, gismah
    • Middle High German: gesmac, gesmacke
      • Bavarian: Gschmåckn, Gschmåch, Gschmåcha, Gschmo
      • Cimbrian: gasmékh
      • German: Geschmack, Geschmeck
      • Luxembourgish: Geschmaach

References

• Vladimir Orel (2003) “*smak(k)ōn ~ *smak(k)az”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology‎^[1], Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 352