Where does “Hakjsenkonst” come from?

Hakjsenkonst (Plautdietsch) comes from Plautdietsch Hakjs, from Middle Low German hexe, from Old Saxon *hagatusia, from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā — witch.

Hakjsenkonst (Plautdietsch): witchcraft, sorcery, magic

Definitions

  1. witchcraft, sorcery, magic

Ancestry of “Hakjsenkonst”, step by step

Hakjsenkonst traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Plautdietsch Hakjs

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschHakjswitch, sorceress
2Middle Low Germanhexe—
3Old Saxon*hagatusia—
4Proto-West Germanic*hagatussjāwitch

via Plautdietsch Konst

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1PlautdietschKonstart
2Proto-Germanickunstizknowledge, ability
3Proto-Germanickunnanąto know, to be familiar with, to recognise; to...
4Proto-Indo-Europeanǵneh₃-to know
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *hagatussjā →Every word from Old Saxon *hagatusia →Every word from Middle Low German hexe →