Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/feukaną

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

Probably backformed to the iterative *fukkōną (“to blow, gust”). From Proto-Indo-European *pewg- (“billow, bulge, drift”). Cognate with Latvian pūgà (“gust, blast, storm, blizzard”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈɸeu̯.kɑ.nɑ̃/

Verb

*feukaną

1. to blow
2. to be blown away

Alternative forms

• *fūkaną (with ū as innovative full grade marker)

Inflection

Conjugation of *feukaną (strong class 2)

	active voice			passive voice
present tense	indicative	subjunctive	imperative	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*feukō	*feukaų	—	*feukai	?
2nd singular	*fiukizi	*feukaiz	*feuk	*feukazai	*feukaizau
3rd singular	*fiukidi	*feukai	*feukadau	*feukadai	*feukaidau
1st dual	*feukōz	*feukaiw	—	—	—
2nd dual	*feukadiz	*feukaidiz	*feukadiz	—	—
1st plural	*feukamaz	*feukaim	—	*feukandai	*feukaindau
2nd plural	*fiukid	*feukaid	*fiukid	*feukandai	*feukaindau
3rd plural	*feukandi	*feukain	*feukandau	*feukandai	*feukaindau
past tense	indicative	subjunctive
1st singular	*fauk	*fukį̄
2nd singular	*fauht	*fukīz
3rd singular	*fauk	*fukī
1st dual	*fukū	*fukīw
2nd dual	*fukudiz	*fukīdiz
1st plural	*fukum	*fukīm
2nd plural	*fukud	*fukīd
3rd plural	*fukun	*fukīn
	present	past
participles	*feukandz	*fukanaz

Related terms

• *faukijaną

Descendants

From *feukaną:

• Old Norse: fjúka
  • Icelandic: fjúka (“to be blown away”)
  • Faroese: fúka (“to drift, dash, be blown away”)
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: fyke, fyka (“to fly away”)
  • Jamtish: fýke
  • Old Swedish: fiūka, fȳka
    • Swedish: fjuka, fyka (“to be drifted by the wind”)
  • Scanian: fýga
  • Danish: fyge (“to be moved by the wind”)
    • Norwegian Bokmål: fyke
• Proto-West Germanic: *feukan:
  • Dutch: fijcken (=fuiken)

From *fūkaną:

• Proto-West Germanic: *fūkan
  • Dutch: fuiken (“to thrust”) (obsolete)
  • German: fauchen (“to hiss”)