Etymograph

English

pulk

Pulk comes from Swedish pulka ‘a pulk’, and goes back to Proto-Samic *pulkkē.

  1. Proto-Samicprehistoric (reconstructed)*pulkkē1reconstructed
  2. Swedishmodernpulka1‘a pulk’
  3. Norwegianmodernpulk1
  4. Englishtodaypulk1

attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor

  1. 1 Wiktionary, English pulk

Lineage

  1. Proto-Samicprehistoric (reconstructed)*pulkkēWiktionary, English pulkreconstructed
  2. SwedishmodernpulkaWiktionary, English pulk‘a pulk’
  3. NorwegianmodernpulkWiktionary, English pulk
  4. EnglishtodaypulkWiktionary, English pulk

Every English word from Proto-Samic *pulkkē

Another origin of pulk

  1. Proto-Indo-Europeanc. 4500–2500 BCE*bel-‘bog, marsh’reconstructed
  2. Proto-Germanicc. 500 BCE–200 CE*pōlaz‘pool’reconstructed
  3. Proto-West Germanicc. 200–500 CE*pōlreconstructed
  4. Old Englishc. 450–1150pōl‘pool’
  5. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500pol‘pool’
  6. Middle Englishc. 1150–1500polk‘a pond or puddle’
  7. Englishtodaypulk

Today it means

noun A low-slung boatlike sled, used for man-hauling supplies across snow and ice.

Sources

Sources: Wiktionary, “pulk”. By Wiktionary contributors, CC BY-SA 4.0, via kaikki.org (dump of Oct 3 2026); text adapted and restructured. Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word. License.

Etymograph / Proto-Samic *pulkkē / pulk

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