lekken
Dutch (Brabantic)
verb
Definitions
- to leak
- (Southern Dutch) to lick
Etymology
Inherited from Old Dutch *lekken inherited from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną (water, wet, irrigate, drain, seize) inherited from Middle Dutch lecken inherited from Old Dutch leckon inherited from Proto-Germanic *likkōną (lick).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*likkōną
Gloss
lick
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Emoji
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Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Leakgate English
- aleak English
- antileak English
- inleak English
- leak English
- leakage English
- leakee English
- leaker English
- leakest English
- leaketh English
- leakless English
- leakproof English
- leaky English
- megaleak English
- microleak English
- overleak English
- superleak English
- Lackmus German
- daklekkage Dutch, Flemish
- lakmoes Dutch, Flemish
- lakmoespapier Dutch, Flemish
- lakmoesproef Dutch, Flemish
- lekkage Dutch, Flemish
- likken Dutch, Flemish
- moes Dutch, Flemish
- uit Dutch, Flemish
- uitlekken Dutch, Flemish
- *(s)leh₂g- Proto-Indo-European
- *(s)leh₂gʷ- Proto-Indo-European
- *leyǵʰ- Proto-Indo-European
- lekkasje Norwegian Bokmål
- *lakjaną Proto-Germanic
- *lakō Proto-Germanic
- *lekaną Proto-Germanic
- *likkōną Proto-Germanic
- lackmus Swedish
- lekkasje Norwegian Nynorsk
- liccian Old English
- læccan Old English
- læċċan Old English
- leken Middle English
- liki Esperanto
- lakmus Indonesian
- lecken Middle Dutch
- lecmoes Middle Dutch
- lecchōn Old High German
- *lakkjan gmw-pro
- *likkōn gmw-pro
- *lekken Old Dutch
- leccon Old Dutch
- leckon Old Dutch
- *lekkon Frankish
- *lekkon, *lekkōn Frankish
- lik Tok Pisin