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Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/pikkōną
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Proto-Germanic
Etymology
Unknown; from a stem *pikk-, of apparently imitative origin, + *-ōną.
Verb
*pikkōną
- to pick, peck, prick
Inflection
The original paradigm consisted of two stem variants, *pikk- against *pik-.
Conjugation of *pikkōną (weak class 2)
| active voice | passive voice | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive |
| 1st singular | *pikkō | *pikkǭ | — | *pikkōi | ? |
| 2nd singular | *pikkōsi | *pikkōs | *pikkō | *pikkōsai | *pikkōsau |
| 3rd singular | *pikkōþi | *pikkō | *pikkōþau | *pikkōþai | *pikkōþau |
| 1st dual | *pikkōs | *pikkōw | — | — | — |
| 2nd dual | *pikkōþiz | *pikkōþiz | *pikkōþiz | — | — |
| 1st plural | *pikkōmaz | *pikkōm | — | *pikkōnþai | *pikkōnþau |
| 2nd plural | *pikkōþ | *pikkōþ | *pikkōþ | *pikkōnþai | *pikkōnþau |
| 3rd plural | *pikkōnþi | *pikkōn | *pikkōnþau | *pikkōnþai | *pikkōnþau |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | |||
| 1st singular | *pikkōdǭ | *pikkōdēdį̄ | |||
| 2nd singular | *pikkōdēz | *pikkōdēdīz | |||
| 3rd singular | *pikkōdē | *pikkōdēdī | |||
| 1st dual | *pikkōdēdū | *pikkōdēdīw | |||
| 2nd dual | *pikkōdēdudiz | *pikkōdēdīdiz | |||
| 1st plural | *pikkōdēdum | *pikkōdēdīm | |||
| 2nd plural | *pikkōdēdud | *pikkōdēdīd | |||
| 3rd plural | *pikkōdēdun | *pikkōdēdīn | |||
| present | past | ||||
| participles | *pikkōndz | *pikkōdaz | |||
Related terms
- *pīkaz
- *pikkaz
Descendants
- Proto-West Germanic: *pikkōn
- Old English: *piccian, *pīcian, pȳcan
- Middle English: piken, picken, pikken
- English: pick
- Scots: pik
- Middle English: pecken, pekken (possible borrowing from Middle Dutch or Middle Low German forms)
- English: peck
- Middle English: piken, picken, pikken
- Old Saxon: *pikkōn
- Middle Low German: picken, pecken
- German Low German: picken
- → German: picken
- Middle Low German: picken, pecken
- Old Dutch: *pikken
- Middle Dutch: picken, pecken, peken
- Dutch: pikken
- Middle Dutch: picken, pecken, peken
- Old High German: picchen
- → Vulgar Latin: *piccō (“to strike, sting”) (see there for further descendants)
- Old English: *piccian, *pīcian, pȳcan
- Old Norse: pikka
- Icelandic: pikka
- Norwegian: pikka
- Swedish: picka
- Danish: pikke
- Westrobothnian: piikk