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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/likkōn
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *likkōną.
Verb
*likkōn[1]
- to lick
Inflection
| Class 2 weak | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *likkōn | |
| 1st sg. past | *likkōdā | |
| Infinitive | *likkōn | |
| Genitive infin. | *likkōnijas | |
| Dative infin. | *likkōnijē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *likkōniju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *likkō | *likkōdā |
| 2nd singular | *likkōs | *likkōdēs, *likkōdōs |
| 3rd singular | *likkōþ | *likkōdē, *likkōdā |
| 1st plural | *likkōm | *likkōdum |
| 2nd plural | *likkōþ | *likkōdud |
| 3rd plural | *likkōnþ | *likkōdun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *likkō | *likkōdī |
| 2nd singular | *likkōs | *likkōdī |
| 3rd singular | *likkō | *likkōdī |
| 1st plural | *likkōm | *likkōdīm |
| 2nd plural | *likkōþ | *likkōdīd |
| 3rd plural | *likkōn | *likkōdīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *likkō | |
| Plural | *likkōþ | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *likkōndī | *likkōd |
Descendants
- Old English: liccian
- Middle English: likken, licken
- Scots: lik
- English: lick
- Middle English: likken, licken
- Old Frisian: *likkia, *likja
- Saterland Frisian: likje
- West Frisian: likke
- Old Saxon: likkōn, lekkōn
- Middle Low German: licken, lecken
- Low German: licken
- → Danish: likke
- Middle Low German: licken, lecken
- Old Dutch: leccon
- Middle Dutch: lecken
- Dutch: likken
- Limburgish: lekke
- Middle Dutch: lecken
- Old High German: leccōn, lechhōn, lechōn
- Middle High German: lëcken
- German: lecken
- Hunsrik: lecke
- Luxembourgish: lecken
- Vilamovian: łakia
- Yiddish: לעקן (lekn)
- Middle High German: lëcken
- → Old French: lekier, lescher, lechier, lecher
- Middle French: lécher
- French: lécher
- → Middle English: lechen
- English: lech
- Middle French: lécher
- → Occitan: lecar, lechar
- → Italian: leccare
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 35: “PWGmc *li/ekkōn”