n. (vbl. n.)
'playing' (Modern English laking)
PGmc Ancestor
*laikan-
Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)
leika ‘to play, perform, move, delude’
(ONP leika (3) (vb.))
Other Scandinavian Reflexes
Far, Icel, Norw leika, Dan leke, Sw leka
OE Cognate
lācan (v.) 'to move up and down, leap, swing, play, delude'
Phonological and morphological markers
ON /ei/ < PGmc */ai/
Summary category
A1*c
Only a few texts c1390-1425 (Gaw, PConsc., Ld.Troy)
Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus
Gaw 472