hycgan

== Old English == === Alternative forms === hyċġġan, hyċġean, hiċġan, hyġġean, hyċċan === Etymology === From Proto-West Germanic *huggjan, from Proto-Germanic *hugjaną (“think, consider”). Cognate with Old Saxon huggian, Old High German huggen, Old Norse hyggja, Gothic 𐌷𐌿𐌲𐌾𐌰𐌽 (hugjan). === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /ˈxyj.jɑn/, [ˈhyd.d͡ʒɑn] Rhymes: -yj.jɑn === Verb === hyċġan to think to think about, to think of, to consider "The Wife's Lament" ==== Conjugation ==== The class III weak verbs were all subject to some degree of remodeling in Old English. In hyċġan this can be seen in the variant pret. stem hyġd-, with the root vowel extended from the rest of the paradigm. The other class III verbs show the influence of class II forms, but in this case there was already the closely related hogian. There was therefore pressure to either simply use that verb instead, making it the more common of the two, especially later in the period, or to further differentiate from it, which may explain the unusually conservative appearance of this paradigm, despite the lower incidence compared to the other class III verbs. ==== Derived terms ==== ==== Related terms ==== ġehyġd hogian ==== Descendants ==== Middle English: *huggen, *higgen, heoȝen >? Scots: huke, huik