Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/munik

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

Borrowed from Late Latin monicus.^[1]

Noun

*munik m

(Christianity) monk

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*munik
Genitive	*munikas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*munik	munikō, munikōs
Accusative	*munik	*munikā
Genitive	*munikas	*munikō
Dative	*munikē	*munikum
Instrumental	*muniku	*munikum

Derived terms

*munikō
- Old Saxon: *muniko
  - Middle Low German: mȫnik, monneke, monnke
- Old High German: munihho, municho
  - Middle High German: müneche
*munikōn

Descendants

Old English: munuc, munec
- Middle English: monk, monke
  - English: monk
  - Scots: monk, munk, mounk
- → Old Norse: munkr
  - Danish: munk
  - Icelandic: munkur
  - Faroese: munkur
  - Norwegian: munk
  - Old Swedish: munker, munk
    - Swedish: munk
      - → Finnish: munkki
    - → Estonian: munk
  - → Latvian: mūks
  - → Võro: muuk
Old Frisian: munek, monink, munik, monik, *mūnits
- West Frisian: muonts
Old Saxon: *monik, *munik
- Middle Low German: mȫnik, mȫnek, mȫnnik, mȫnnek, mȫnk, mȫnnink
Old Dutch: *monik, *munik
- Middle Dutch: mōnic, mȫnic, munic, monc, munc, monnic, moenc
  - Dutch: monnik
    - Afrikaans: monnik
  - Limburgish: munnik
Old High German: munih
- Middle High German: munich, munch, münch, münech, münich
  - Alemannic German: Mönch
  - German: Mönch
    - → Luxembourgish: Mënch
  - Luxembourgish: Minnech
  - Vilamovian: mynich
- → Old Church Slavonic: мънихъ (mŭnixŭ)
- → Old Czech: mnich (see there for further descendants)
- → Slovene: mních, menih

References

^ de Vries, Jan (1971) “monnik”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

[1] Vries, Jan (1971) “monnik”, in Nederlands etymologisch woordenboek [Dutch etymological dictionary] (in Dutch), Leiden: Brill, →ISBN

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