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Where does “ġiċċan” come from?
ġiċċan (Old English) comes from Proto-West Germanic *jukkjan — to itch.
Ancestry of “ġiċċan”, step by step
Step
Language
Word
Meaning
1
Proto-West Germanic
*jukkjan
to itch
Words derived from “ġiċċan”
hitch
icchen
ȝicchen
heech
Every word from Proto-West Germanic *jukkjan →