puca – Old English noun declension

Old English noun forms of puca

Noun: puca
Gender:

Nominative

Singularpūca
Pluralpūcan

Genitive

Singularpūcan
Pluralpūcena

Dative

Singularpūcan
Pluralpūcum

Accusative

Singularpūcan
Pluralpūcan

Sample Sentences

Nouns inflected like puca

puca,

Etymology

1. From Proto-West Germanic *pūkō, from Proto-Germanic *pūkô (“a goblin, spook”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)pāug(')- (“brilliance, spectre”) or from Proto-Indo-European *bew- (“to swell, blow”).
2. Cognate with Old Norse púki (dialectal Swedish puke (“devil”)). Compare also Middle Low German spôk, spûk (“apparition, ghost”), Middle Dutch spooc (“apparition, ghost”) (Dutch spook), Middle High German gespük (“a haunting”) (German Spuk). See: Old Norse Nouns 'púki'.

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