Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/kīkaną
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Proto-Germanic
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *kéh₂ikos, related to Proto-Italic *kaikos, in which case it would be a doublet of *haihaz (“one-eyed”).
Perhaps related to German gucken (“to watch, look”), but this word is itself of obscure origin.
Pronunciation
[edit]Verb
[edit]*kīkaną
Inflection
[edit]Conjugation of *kīkaną (strong class 1)
Descendants
[edit]- Proto-West Germanic: *kīkan
- ⇒ Old Frisian: *kīkia
- Old Saxon: kīkan
- Middle Low German: kîken
- Low German: kieken
- → Dutch: kieken
- Plautdietsch: kjikjen
- → Middle English: kiken, keken, kyken
- → German: kieken
- → Icelandic: kíkja
- → Faroese: kika
- → Norn: kika
- → Norwegian Nynorsk: kika, kikka
- → Norwegian Bokmål: kike
- → Swedish: kika
- → Finnish: tsiigata
- → Danish: kigge, kikke, kige (dialect)
- Norwegian Bokmål: kikke
- → Gutnish: keike, keik', keika
- Low German: kieken
- Middle Low German: kîken
- Old Dutch: *kīcan
- → Estonian: kiikama