Where does “kīkan” come from?

kīkan (Old Saxon) comes from Proto-West Germanic kīkan, from Proto-Germanic kīkaną — to look, peep.

kīkan (Old Saxon): to look

Definitions

  1. to look

Ancestry of “kīkan”, step by step

kīkan traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Proto-West Germanic kīkan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-West Germanickīkanto look, to peep
2Proto-Germanickīkanąto look, peep

via Proto-Germanic *kīkan

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Proto-Germanic*kīkan—

Words derived from “kīkan”

Every word from Proto-Germanic kīkaną →Every word from Proto-West Germanic kīkan →