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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/hīgōną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Indo-European *ḱēygʰ- (“swift, fierce, violent”). Compare Latin cieō (“set in motion, invoke, provoke”), Ancient Greek κινέω (kinéō, “move, set in motion”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈxiː.ɣɔː.nɑ̃/
Verb
*hīgōną
- to breathe; snort; pant; wheeze
Inflection
Conjugation of *hīgōną (weak class 2)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *hīgō | *hīgǭ | — | *hīgōi | *? |
| 2nd singular | *hīgōsi | *hīgōs | *hīgō | *hīgōsai | *hīgōsau |
| 3rd singular | *hīgōþi | *hīgō | *hīgōþau | *hīgōþai | *hīgōþau |
| 1st dual | *hīgōs | *hīgōw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *hīgōþiz | *hīgōþiz | *hīgōþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *hīgōmaz | *hīgōm | — | *hīgōnþai | *hīgōnþau |
| 2nd plural | *hīgōþ | *hīgōþ | *hīgōþ | *hīgōnþai | *hīgōnþau |
| 3rd plural | *hīgōnþi | *hīgōn | *hīgōnþau | *hīgōnþai | *hīgōnþau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *hīgōdǭ | *hīgōdēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *hīgōdēz | *hīgōdēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *hīgōdē | *hīgōdēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *hīgōdēdū | *hīgōdēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *hīgōdēdudiz | *hīgōdēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *hīgōdēdum | *hīgōdēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *hīgōdēdud | *hīgōdēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *hīgōdēdun | *hīgōdēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *hīgōndz | *hīgōdaz | |||
Derived terms
- *hiksatjaną
- *hiksōną
Descendants
- Old English: hīġian
- Middle English: hiȝen, heiȝen, hyen, hien
- Scots: hie
- English: hie
- Middle English: hiȝen, heiȝen, hyen, hien
- Old Saxon: *hīgōn
- Middle Low German: hīgen, hīchen; (hēgen, heigen)
- Low German: higen
- Middle Low German: hīgen, hīchen; (hēgen, heigen)
- Old Dutch: *hīgon
- Middle Dutch: hīgen, hīghen
- Dutch: hijgen; hikken
- Middle Dutch: hīgen, hīghen
- Old High German: *hīgōn (?)
- Middle High German: (hecheln, hacheln) (“to copulate”, probably of different origin)
- German: (hechen, heichen, hecheln) (“to pant”, possibly from Low German)
- Middle High German: (hecheln, hacheln) (“to copulate”, probably of different origin)
- Old Norse: *híga; (hexta)
- Norwegian:
- Norwegian Nynorsk: hike, hika, (hikke, hikka)
- Norwegian Bokmål: (hikke)
- Westrobothnian: hiik (heekk)
- Angermannic: hikja
- Swedish: (hicka)
- Scanian: hiğa
- Danish: hige (hikke)
- Norwegian Bokmål: hige
- Norwegian: