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See also: Appendix:Variations of "ic"

Translingual

Alternative forms

Symbol

ic

  1. (informal) A Roman numeral representing ninety-nine (99).

See also

K'iche'

Noun

ic

  1. (Classical K'iche') chile

Megleno-Romanian

Etymology

From Latin ficus. Compare Aromanian hic(u).

Noun

ic m

  1. fig tree

Middle Dutch

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Old Dutch ik, from Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek. The accusative and dative are Old Dutch mī, from Proto-West Germanic *miʀ, from Proto-Germanic *miz, originally only the dative form.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

ic

  1. I

Inflection

More information nominative, accusative ...

Descendants

  • Dutch: ik, ick, ikke (informal or childish)
    • Afrikaans: ek
    • Berbice Creole Dutch: eke
    • Jersey Dutch: äk
    • Petjo: ik
    • Skepi Creole Dutch: ek

Further reading

  • “ic”, in Vroegmiddelnederlands Woordenboek, 2000
  • Verwijs, E.; Verdam, J. (1885–1929), “ic”, in Middelnederlandsch Woordenboek, The Hague: Martinus Nijhoff, →ISBN
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Middle English

Pronoun

ic

  1. alternative form of I (“I”)

Old English

Alternative forms

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ik, unstressed form of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm.

Pronunciation

Pronoun

iċ

  1. I
    Iċ lufiġe þē.
    I love you.
    • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 6:20
      Iċ hit eom. Ne ondrǣdaþ ēow.
      It's me [literally I am it]. Don't be scared.
    • The Life of Saint Margaret
      Iċ nylle nān word mā of þīnum mūðe ġehīeran.
      I don't want to hear one more word out of your mouth.

Usage notes

  • In modern English, object pronouns are often used as subjects in a wide variety of circumstances ("Me and her are friends", "you're as big as me"). In Old English, only subject pronouns were used as subjects (except with a small class of verbs such as līcian, mǣtan, and twēoġan, which took dative or accusative subjects with nouns and pronouns alike). Thus "me and her are friends" was Iċ and hēo sind ġefrīend, literally "I and she are friends."

Declension

More information nominative, accusative ...

Descendants

  • Southern Middle English: ich
    • English: ich (obsolete since 19th century)
    • Yola: ich (revived)
  • Northern Middle English: ik
    • Scots: Ik (rare)
  • Later Middle English: I
    • English: I
    • Scots: A, I
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Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *eǵh₂óm. Compare Old Frisian ik, Old English iċ, Old Dutch ik, Old High German ih, Old Norse ek, Gothic 𐌹𐌺 (ik).

Pronoun

ic

  1. alternative spelling of ik

Declension

More information nominative, accusative ...

Descendants

  • Low German: ik
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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian ék.

Noun

ic n (plural icuri)

  1. wedge

Declension

More information singular, plural ...

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