Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/likkōn

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms 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-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
Old Frisian: *likkia, *likja
- Saterland Frisian: likje
- West Frisian: likke
Old Saxon: likkōn, lekkōn
- Middle Low German: licken, lecken
  - Low German: licken
  - → Danish: likke
Old Dutch: leccon
- Middle Dutch: lecken
  - Dutch: likken
  - Limburgish: lekke
Old High German: leccōn, lechhōn, lechōn
- Middle High German: lëcken
  - German: lecken
  - Hunsrik: lecke
  - Luxembourgish: lecken
  - Vilamovian: łakia
  - Yiddish: לעקן (lekn)
→? Old French: lekier, lescher, lechier, lecher
- Middle French: lécher
  - French: lécher
- → Middle English: lechen
  - English: lech
→? 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”

[1] 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”

[1]