Wurdahuzdą: Proto-Germanic dictionary — *seukanąScott K. ShayWardja Presshttps://protogermanic.org/pgmc_seukaną
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ἦκαquietly, slowlysēgnislazy, slowsochtsilence
verbStrong class 2to be sickUncertain. Assuming that Proto-Germanic *seuk- is back-formed from the zero-grade in *sukkōną (‘to be ill’), Kroonen reconstructs a pre-Germanic *sk-néh₂- and compares Latin sēgnis (‘lazy, slow’), Ancient Greek ἦκα (êka, ‘quietly, slowly’), and Old Irish socht (‘silence’), but a precise Proto-Indo-European root for these words is lacking (Kroonen prefers *sek- over *sewk-).Pokorny suggests Proto-Indo-European *sewg-, *sēwg- (‘ill, grievous, sad’), also adding Old Armenian հիւծանիմ (hiwcanim, ‘to waste away, wither’), but Kroonen rejects comparisons with the Armenian word.