ik
Middle English
/ik/
pronoun
Definitions
- (chiefly Northern dialectal) (alternative form of) I
Etymology
Inherited from Old English ic (I) inherited from Proto-Germanic *ik inherited from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂ (I).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*éǵh₂
Gloss
I
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- ego Latin
- ἐγώ Ancient Greek
- *h₁me Proto-Indo-European
- *éǵh₂ Proto-Indo-European
- *éǵh₂om Proto-Indo-European
- jeg Norwegian Bokmål
- *ek Proto-Germanic
- *ek, *ik Proto-Germanic
- *ik Proto-Germanic
- eg Norwegian Nynorsk
- ic Old English
- iċ Old English
- ek Old Norse
- jeg Danish
- *(j)a Proto-Slavic
- *(j)azъ Proto-Slavic
- eg Icelandic
- ek Icelandic
- ég Icelandic
- ih Old High German
- ես Old Armenian
- eg Faroese
- *ik gmw-pro
- *aȷ́ʰám Proto-Indo-Iranian
- ik Old Saxon
- iak Old Swedish
- *egō Proto-Italic
- ik Scots
- *ajám Proto-Iranian
- iegh Old Danish
- ig Elfdalian
- ᛖᚲ Proto-Norse
- ñuk Tocharian A
- eg Norn
- ich Crimean Gothic
- ja Gutnish
- *ʔúǵ Proto-Anatolian
- æ Jutish