leka
Swedish
verb-reg
Definitions
- play a child's game
- (of fish and certain birds) to lek
Etymology
Inherited from Old Swedish leka, lēka inherited from Old Norse leika (play) inherited from Proto-Germanic *laikaną (move about, jump, play) derived from Proto-Indo-European *leyg- (shake, tremble, bounce, jump, play, spring, likeness, similarity, image, whirl).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*leyg-
Gloss
shake, tremble, bounce, jump, play, spring, likeness, similarity, image, whirl
Concept
Semantic Field
Motion
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
踊
Emoji
🤝
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- laik English
- lakin English
- lek English
- skylark English
- lijk Dutch, Flemish
- ἐλελίζω Ancient Greek
- *leyg- Proto-Indo-European
- *lig-e- Proto-Indo-European
- leike Norwegian Bokmål
- leke Norwegian Bokmål
- *laikaną Proto-Germanic
- *laikaz Proto-Germanic
- *laiko- Proto-Germanic
- *laiką Proto-Germanic
- *līkāną Proto-Germanic
- *līką Proto-Germanic
- lek Swedish
- lekplats Swedish
- leksak Swedish
- plats Swedish
- sak Swedish
- väder Swedish
- väderleka Swedish
- leike Norwegian Nynorsk
- lac Old English
- lacan Old English
- lāc Old English
- like Middle English
- leika Old Norse
- leikari Old Norse
- leikmaðr Old Norse
- lege Danish
- legeplads Danish
- leika Icelandic
- آلیختن Persian
- līh Old High German
- leika Faroese
- 𐌻𐌰𐌹𐌺𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- *lī(h)strō gmw-pro
- *laygos Proto-Celtic
- *lāɸigos Proto-Celtic
- leka Old Swedish
- leka, lēka Old Swedish
- Leich Pennsylvania German
- Leich Plautdietsch