*sīką

Runic: ᛊᛁᚲᚨ Pronunciation: /ˈsiː.kɑ̃/

noun · neuter · a-stem

Meanings

trickling water; a dribble
a slow brook
a marshy place

Etymology

Unknown. Perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *seygʷ-, variant of *seykʷ- (‘to pour out; gush; stream; flow; trickle’) (whence *sīhwaną (‘to percolate, filter’) and *saiwiz (‘sea’)), from *sey- (‘to be wet; dribble; run’), but the delabialization would be unexpected.

Declension

Case	Singular	Plural
Nom.	sīką	sīkō
Acc.	sīką	sīkō
Gen.	sīkas, sīkis	sīkǫ̂
Dat.	sīkai	sīkamaz
Inst.	sīkō	sīkamiz
Voc.	sīką	sīkō

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Descendants

*sīk (Proto-West Germanic)
- gisīch (Old High German)
*sīk (Proto-West Germanic)
- sīċ (Old English)
  - sych, syk, syke (Middle English)
    - sitch, sike (English)
    - sike, syke (Scots)
*sīk (Proto-West Germanic)
- *sīk (Old Saxon)
  - sīk (Middle Low German)
    - Sieker (German Low German)
sík (Old Norse)
- sík, síki (Icelandic)
- sik, sike (Norwegian Bokmål)
- sik, sike, sika (Norwegian Nynorsk)
- sik (Swedish)
sík (Old Norse)
- sike, syke (Middle English)
  - sike (English)
  - syke (Scots)

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