Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To pilfer; filch; steal. · To shrink or retire from view; lurk out of sight; skulk. · To be absent from (school) without a valid excuse; to play truant, to skive off. · To grumble secretly.
From Middle English mychen, müchen (“to rob, steal, pilfer”), from Old English *mȳċan (“to steal”), from Proto-West Germanic *mūkijan, from Proto-Germanic *mūkijaną (“to waylay, ambush, hide, rob”), from Proto-Indo-European *(s)mūg-, *(s)mewg- (“swindler, thief”). Cognate with Scots mich, myche (“to steal”), Saterland Frisian mogeln (“to act secretively and deceitfully”), Dutch mokkelen (“to flatter”), Alemannic German mauchen (“to nibble secretively”), German mogeln (“to cheat”), German meucheln (“to assassinate”), Norwegian i mugg (“in secret, secretly”), Latin muger (“cheater”). Related to mooch.
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- Inherited-form mentionmychenenm
- Inherited-form mention*mȳċanang · to steal
- Inherited-form mention*mūkijangmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*mūk-gem-pro · to waylay, ambush, hide, rob
- Derivation mention*(s)mūg-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionmichsco
- Cognate mentionmogelnstq
- Cognate mentionmokkelennl
- Cognate mentionmauchengsw
- Cognate mentionmogelnde
- Cognate mentionmeuchelnde
- Cognate mentioni muggno
- Cognate mentionmugerla
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