hycgan

• hyċġġan, hyċġean, hiċġan, hyġġean, hyċċan

From Proto-West Germanic *huggjan, from Proto-Germanic *hugjaną (“think, consider”). Cognate with Old Saxon huggian, Old High German huggen, Old Norse hyggja, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hugjan).

• IPA^(key): /ˈxyj.jɑn/, [ˈhyd.d͡ʒɑn]

hyċġan

1. to think
   • 10th century, The Wanderer:

     …þæt biþ in eorle · indryhten þēaw,
     þæt hē his ferðlocan · fæste binde,
     healde his hordcōfan; · hyċġe swā hē wille.

     …that a noble habit is in a brave man,
     that he would tightly bind his spirit,
     keep his treasure-chamber; think as he want.

2. to think about, to think of, to consider
   • "The Wife's Lament"

     Ongunnon þæt þæs mannes māgas hyċġan þurh dierne ġeþōht þæt hīe tōdǣlden unc.

     The person's relatives began to think of a secret plan to separate us.

The conjugation table below shows the inherited forms of hyċġan, with hy(ċ)ġ- throughout the present tense and hogd- throughout the past. These are the normal forms in Early West Saxon. In the other dialects and Late West Saxon, it was often inflected as a weak class II verb hogian.

• ġehyġd
• hogian

• Middle English: *huggen, *higgen, heoȝen
  • >? Scots: huke, huik