Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/plōgaz

Etymology
Possibly borrowed from, , from , from the root. Compare 🇨🇬.

Alinei also mentions the 🇨🇬 (, Naturalis historia 18.69), with the second element possibly relating to the family of 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬. has suggested a connection of the Germanic and the Latin words to (“to care for one’s life” > “to plow”); compare 🇨🇬 and 🇨🇬,, which could nevertheless point as well to the opposite morpho-semantic evolution. Otherwise he proposes a connection with 🇨🇬, which seems a bit far-fetched.

Noun

 * 1) plough