i̯ek-

    i̯ek-

    English meaning: to speak

    Deutsche Übersetzung: ‘sprechen”, also von feierlicher, bittender Rede

    Material: O.Ind. yǘ cati “fleht, fordert”, yücñ ǘ “request”; yücitá -, yǘ citum, yücitar-, etc. Lat. iocus ‘scherzrede, joke “; Umbr. iuka, iuku acc. pl. n. “preces”, Osc. iúkleí “inconsecratione”; O.H.G. jehan, gehan ‘say, speak, bekennen”, asächs. gehan ds., O.H.G. jiht (*jeχti-) “Aussage, Bekenntnis”, bijiht = Ger. “Beichte”, in addition Krankheitsname Gicht (“through Besprechen verursacht”); M.Welsh ieith, Welsh iaith, Bret. iez “language” (*jekti-); Lith. juõkas, Ltv. juõks “ joke “ is perhaps Lat. Lw. from the Studentensprache, as also Ger. Jux; against it Trautmann 108; Toch. А В yask- “long, want, beg” (Van Windekens Lexique 165 f.), A yüṣ ṣ uce, В yüṣ ṣ ūca “ beggar”.

    References: WP. I 204 f., WH. I 715 f.; Sommer WuS. 7, 104 ff. will also i̯ǝk- “heal, cure” hierherstellen, but because of O.Ir. hīcc (IE ē) not glaubhaft.