Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/līkāną
Proto-Germanic
editEtymology
editFrom *-līkaz (“like”) + *-āną.
Verb
edit*līkāną
- to conform, to be of an agreeable kind
- to please (+ dative object), to like (impersonal) (+ dative subject)
Usage notes
editJudging 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
editConjugation of *līkāną (weak class 3)
Derived terms
editDescendants
editCategories:
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European
- Proto-Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- (like)
- Proto-Germanic terms suffixed with *-līkaz
- Proto-Germanic terms suffixed with *-āną (stative-fientive)
- Proto-Germanic lemmas
- Proto-Germanic verbs
- Proto-Germanic class 3 weak verbs