*pūkô

Runic: ᛈᚢᚲᛟ Pronunciation: /ˈpuː.kɔːː/

noun · masculine · an-stem

Meanings

hunchback, goblin, spook

Etymology

Uncertain. Possibly related to *spōk, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāuǵ-, *(s)pāug- (‘brilliance; spectre’) with unusually late loss of the s-mobile (after Grimm's law), but this still suffers other phonetic problems as well as probably semantic ones. Perhaps of substrate origin, or imitative like English boo.

Declension

CaseSingularPlural
Nom.pūkôpūkaniz
Acc.pūkanųpūkanunz
Gen.pūkinizpūkanǫ̂
Dat.pūkinipūkammaz
Inst.pūkinēpūkammiz
Voc.pūkôpūkaniz

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Descendants

  • *pūkō (Proto-West Germanic)
    • peuk, puk (Dutch)
  • *pūkō (Proto-West Germanic)
    • pūca (Old English)
      • pwca (Welsh)
  • *pūkō (Proto-West Germanic)
    • pūca (Old English)
      • bocka (Cornish)
        • bucca (English)
  • *pūkō (Proto-West Germanic)
    • pūca (Old English)
      • pouke, ppoke, powke, puke (Middle English)
        • puck, Puck (English)
          • pug (English)
  • *pūkō (Proto-West Germanic)
    • *pūka (Old Frisian)
      • Puk (Saterland Frisian)
  • púki (Old Norse)
    • pokker (Danish)
    • púki (Faroese)
    • púki (Icelandic)
    • pūķis (Latvian)
    • pokker (Norwegian)
  • púki (Old Norse)
    • púca (Old Irish)
      • púca (Irish)
        • pooka, puka (English)
  • púki (Old Norse)
    • púca (Old Irish)
      • púca (Irish)
        • bocka (Cornish)
          • bucca (English)
  • púki (Old Norse)
    • pūke (Old Swedish)
      • puke, skråpuke, skråpuk (Swedish)

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