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