Unnumbered source etymology · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗noun
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryAn instance of drawing something into one's lungs by inhaling or into one's mouth by suction. · Milk drawn from the breast. · An indrawing of gas or liquid caused by suction. · The ability to suck; suction.
Etymology tree Proto-Germanic *sūkaną Proto-West Germanic *sūkan Old English sūcan Middle English souken English suck From Middle English souken, suken, from Old English sūcan (“to suck”), from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną (“to suck, suckle”), from Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sewk- (“to suck”). Cognate with Scots souke (“to suck”), obsolete Dutch zuiken (“to suck”), Limburgish zuken, zoeken (“to suck”). Akin also to Old English sūgan (“to suck”), West Frisian sûge, sûge (“to suck”), Dutch zuigen (“to suck”), German saugen (“to suck”), Danish and Norwegian Bokmål suge (“to suck”), Norwegian Nynorsk and Swedish suga (“to suck”), Icelandic sjúga (“to suck”), Latin sūgō (“suck”), Welsh sugno (“suck”). Related to soak.
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- Inherited-form mentionsoukenenm
- Inherited-form mentionsūcanang · to suck
- Inherited-form mention*sūkangmw-pro
- Derivation mention*sūkanągem-pro · to suck, suckle
- Derivation mention*sewg-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionsoukesco
- Cognate mentionzuikennl
- Cognate mentionzukenli
- Cognate mentionsūganang
- Cognate mentionsûgefy
- Cognate mentionzuigennl
- Cognate mentionsjúgais
- Cognate mentionsūgōla
- Cognate mentionsugnocy
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