Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/slīkaną
Proto-Germanic edit
Etymology edit
From Proto-Indo-European *sleyg-, *sleyǵ- (“to glide, smooth, spread”). Cognate with Old Irish sligim (“to smear”) and Proto-Slavic *slьzьkь (“smooth, slime”).
Pronunciation edit
Verb edit
*slīkaną[1]
Inflection edit
Conjugation of *slīkaną (strong class 1)
Derived terms edit
Descendants edit
- Proto-West Germanic: *slīkan
References edit
- ^ Orel, Vladimir (2003), “*slīkanan”, in A Handbook of Germanic Etymology, Leiden: Brill, →ISBN, page 351