Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/līkāną
Proto-Germanic
Etymology
From *-līkaz (“like”) + *-āną.
Verb
*līkāną
- to conform, to be of an agreeable kind
- to please (+ dative object), to like (impersonal) (+ dative subject)
Usage notes
Judging from Gothic evidence, the difference between this verb and the derived verb *galīkāną seems to have only been one of transitivity. The former could take an object in the dative, while the latter was intransitive only. Other than that the meanings were pretty much identical.
Inflection
| active voice | passive voice | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| present tense | indicative | subjunctive | imperative | indicative | subjunctive | |
| 1st singular | *līkō | ? | — | ? | ? | |
| 2nd singular | *līkaisi | ? | *līkai | *līkāsai | ? | |
| 3rd singular | *līkaiþi | ? | *līkāþau | *līkāþai | ? | |
| 1st dual | *līkōs | ? | — | — | — | |
| 2nd dual | *līkāþiz | ? | *līkāþiz | — | — | |
| 1st plural | *līkāmaz | ? | — | *līkānþai | ? | |
| 2nd plural | *līkaiþ | ? | *līkaiþ | *līkānþai | ? | |
| 3rd plural | *līkānþi | ? | *līkānþau | *līkānþai | ? | |
| past tense | indicative | subjunctive | ||||
| 1st singular | *līkadǭ | *līkadēdį̄ | ||||
| 2nd singular | *līkadēz | *līkadēdīz | ||||
| 3rd singular | *līkadē | *līkadēdī | ||||
| 1st dual | *līkadēdū | *līkadēdīw | ||||
| 2nd dual | *līkadēdudiz | *līkadēdīdiz | ||||
| 1st plural | *līkadēdum | *līkadēdīm | ||||
| 2nd plural | *līkadēdud | *līkadēdīd | ||||
| 3rd plural | *līkadēdun | *līkadēdīn | ||||
| present | past | |||||
| participles | *līkāndz | *līkadaz | ||||