Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/skikkijaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *skeg- or *skek- (“to jump; move”), perhaps from *skehaną + *-kijaną (intensive suffix). (Can this(+) etymology be sourced?)
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*skikkijaną (West Germanic)
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *skikkijaną (weak class 1)
Descendants edit
- Proto-West Germanic: *skikkijan
- Old English: *sċiċċan
- Middle English: skekken (possibly from Dutch or Low German?)
- Old Frisian: skikka, skitza
- West Frisian: skikke
- Old Saxon: *skikkian
- Middle Low German: schicken
- German Low German: schicken
- → Old Norse: skikka
- → Middle French: chicaner
- French: chicaner; chicanerie
- → German: schikanieren
- → English: chicanery
- → Polish: szykanować
- French: chicaner; chicanerie
- Middle Low German: schicken
- Old Dutch: *skikken
- Old High German: *skicchen
- Old English: *sċiċċan