Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kīkan
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kīkaną.
Verb
*kīkan
Inflection
| Strong class 1 | ||
|---|---|---|
| Infinitive | *kīkan | |
| 1st sg. past | *kaik | |
| 3rd pl. past | *kikun | |
| Past ptcple | *kikan | |
| Infinitive | *kīkan | |
| Genitive infin. | *kīkannjas | |
| Dative infin. | *kīkannjē | |
| Instrum. infin. | *kīkannju | |
| Indicative | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *kīku | *kaik |
| 2nd singular | *kīkiʀi | *kikī |
| 3rd singular | *kīkidi | *kaik |
| 1st plural | *kīkum | *kikum |
| 2nd plural | *kīkid | *kikud |
| 3rd plural | *kīkand | *kikun |
| Subjunctive | Present | Past |
| 1st singular | *kīkē | *kikī |
| 2nd singular | *kīkēs | *kikī |
| 3rd singular | *kīkē | *kikī |
| 1st plural | *kīkēm | *kikīm |
| 2nd plural | *kīkēþ | *kikīd |
| 3rd plural | *kīkēn | *kikīn |
| Imperative | Present | |
| Singular | *kīk | |
| Plural | *kīkid | |
| Present | Past | |
| Participle | *kīkandī | *kikan |
Descendants
- ⇒ 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