Reconstruction talk:Proto-Germanic/fukkōną

Reconstruction
I'm not entirely sure the two roots aren't related, possibly "to blow" came from the meaning "to be assaulted by wind", but there are many words of this shape that relate to wind, so I separated them here.

The root isn't mentioned anywhere, I think. I assume that Latin is derived from it, possibly originally meaning "what strikes", while  probably comes from, in which case they were secondarily associated by similar shape and meaning.

German and Dutch also show words with a similar shape meaning "to fool, make a fool", that might possibly have developed from "to assail" > "to bully" > "to make a fool", but it might be a stretch to associate them.

There are also the dialectal/obsolete English and, meaning "to beat, thrash", which I took to imply an original root , but the possible extra-Germanic cognates point towards. Rather, I assume continues, an o-grade iterative, which fits with dialectal Norwegian  and. Anglom (talk) 02:50, 3 March 2015 (UTC)