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Where does “kikke” come from?

kikke (Norwegian Bokmål) comes from Danish [[kikke]], [[kigge]], from Middle Low German kîken, from Old Saxon kīkan, from Proto-West Germanic kīkan, from Proto-Germanic kīkaną — to look, peep.

kikke (Norwegian Bokmål): to look; to glance; to peek, peep

Definitions

  1. to look; to glance; to peek, peep

Ancestry of “kikke”, step by step

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Danish[[kikke]], [[kigge]]—
2Middle Low Germankîkento look, peep
3Old Saxonkīkanto look
4Proto-West Germanickīkanto look, to peep
5Proto-Germanickīkanąto look, peep
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