Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kīkaną

This Proto-Germanic entry contains reconstructed words and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-Germanic

Etymology

Unknown.

Verb

*kīkaną

to look, peep

Descendants

⇒ Old Frisian: *kīkia
- West Frisian: kytse
- Saterland Frisian: kiekje
Old Saxon: kīkan
- Middle Low German: kîken
  - Low German: kieken
  - Plautdietsch: kjikjen
  - Middle English: kiken, keken, kyken
    - Scots: keek
    - English: keek
Old Dutch: *kīkan
- Middle Dutch: kiken
  - Dutch: kijken, kieken (dialectal, or in components)
    - Afrikaans: kyk
Old High German: (*gukkan, *guckan)
- Middle High German: (gucken, gücken; guggen)
  - German: (gucken, kucken)
  - Luxembourgish: (kucken)
Old Norse: kíkja (a borrowing?)
- Icelandic: kikja
- Norn: kika
- Swedish: kika
  - → Finnish: tsiigata
- Danish: kikke, kigge
- Gutnish: keike, keik', keika
→ Estonian: kiikama