Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/līkāną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From *-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 edit
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 edit
Conjugation of *līkāną (weak class 3)