*ankurô

Runic: ᚨᚾᚲᚢᚱᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈɑŋ.ku.rɔːː/

noun · masculine · an-stem

Meanings

anchor

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin ancora, itself borrowed from Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkūra) (Lloyd & Springer 1988: s.v. anker; Weiss 2009: 112). The loan entered coastal Germanic early through contact with the Romans around the Lower Rhine and North Sea and subsequently spread into Scandinavian, where Old Norse akkeri reflects early nk > kk (Lloyd & Springer 1988: s.v. anker). Ancient Greek ἄγκυρα (ánkūra) was traditionally connected with PIE *h₂enk-, but Beekes (2010: 13) regards its -υρα (-ūra) suffix as characteristically Pre-Greek and rejects an inherited Proto-Indo-European formation; its ultimate etymology is therefore uncertain.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	ankurô	ankuraniz
Acc.	ankuranų	ankuranunz
Gen.	ankuriniz	ankuranǫ̂
Dat.	ankurini	ankurammaz
Inst.	ankurinē	ankurammiz
Voc.	ankurô	ankuraniz

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Descendants

*ankurō (Proto-West Germanic)
- *ankaro (Old Dutch)
  - anker (Middle Dutch)
    - anker (Dutch)
      - anker (Afrikaans)
*ankurō (Proto-West Germanic)
- ancor, ancer, oncer (Old English)
  - anker, ancre, aunkir, ankor, ankur, ankir, ancher, ancour, hanker (Middle English)
    - anchor (English)
    - anchor, anker (Scots)
*ankurō (Proto-West Germanic)
- anker, onker (Old Frisian)
  - anker (West Frisian)
*ankurō (Proto-West Germanic)
- ankero, anker (Old High German)
  - anker (Middle High German)
    - Anker (German)
*ankurō (Proto-West Germanic)
- *ankaro (Old Saxon)
  - anker, ankor, ankar (Middle High German)
akkeri, atkeri (Old Norse)
- anker (Danish)
- akkeri (Icelandic)
- anker, ankar (Norwegian)
akkeri, atkeri (Old Norse)
- ancaire (Middle Irish)
  - ancaire (Irish)
  - aker (Manx)
  - acair (Scottish Gaelic)
akkeri, atkeri (Old Norse)
- ankæri (Old Swedish)
  - ankur (Estonian)
  - ankkuri (Finnish)
  - ankare, ankar (Swedish)

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