Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
To peek; peep.
noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryA look, especially a quick one; a peek.
From Middle English kyken, kiken, keken (“to look, peep”), probably from Middle Dutch kiken, kieken or Middle Low German kîken (“to look, peep”), from Old Saxon *kīkan (“to look”), from Proto-West Germanic *kīkan, from Proto-Germanic *kīkaną (“to look”). Cognate with Dutch kijken (“to look”), German Low German kieken (“to look”), Estonian kiikama (“to look, to peek”), German kieken (“to look”), Danish kigge, kikke (“to look, peep”), Swedish kika (“to peep, peek, keek, pry”), Icelandic kíkja (“to look, check”). Perhaps related to kick. The words peek, keek and peep were used more or less synonymously in the 14th and 15th centuries.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionkykenenm
- Derivation mentionkikendum
- Derivation mentionkîkengml · to look, peep
- Derivation mention*kīkanosx · to look
- Derivation mention*kīkangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*kīkanągem-pro · to look
- Cognate mentionkijkennl
- Cognate mentionkiikamaet
- Cognate mentionkiekende
- Cognate mentionkiggeda
- Cognate mentionkikasv
- Cognate mentionkíkjais
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