Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗To grasp and pull with the fingers or fingernails. · To harvest a fruit or vegetable for consumption by removing it from the plant to which it is attached; to harvest an entire plant by removing it from the ground. · To pull apart or away, especially with the fingers; to pluck. · To take up; especially, to gather from here and there; to collect; to bring together.
A tool used for digging; a pickaxe. · An anchor. · A pointed hammer used for dressing millstones. · A tool for unlocking a lock without the original key; a lock pick, picklock.
From Middle English piken, picken, pikken, from Old English *piccian, *pīcian (attested in pīcung (“a pricking”)), and pīcan, pȳcan (“to pick, prick, pluck”), both from Proto-West Germanic *pikkōn, from Proto-Germanic *pikkōną (“to pick, peck, prick, knock”), from Proto-Indo-European *bew-, *bu- (“to make a dull, hollow sound”). Doublet of pitch and peck. Cognate with Dutch pikken (“to pick”), German picken (“to pick, peck”), Old Norse pikka, pjakka (whence Icelandic pikka (“to pick, prick”), Swedish picka (“to pick, peck”)). Compare also German Low German puken (“to pick out, rip out, pull away, extract”).
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionpikenenm
- Inherited-form mention*piccianang
- Inherited-form mention*pikkōngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*pikkōnągem-pro · to pick, peck, prick, knock
- Derivation mention*bew-ine-pro
- Doublet mentionpitchen
- Doublet mentionpecken
- Cognate mentionpikkennl · to pick
- Cognate mentionpickende · to pick, peck
- Cognate mentionpikkanon
- Cognate mentionpikkais · to pick, prick
- Cognate mentionpickasv · to pick, peck
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