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Old English · verb

stician

Part of speech
verb
Verb class
weak class 2
IPA
/ˈsti.ki.ɑn/
Syllables
ˈsti · ki · ɑn (3 syllables)
Modern English
embeddedfastenedstickpiercestabprick

Meaning

  1. to pierce, to stab, to prick, to stick

    Oft iċ beġīne þæt mē onġēan sticað, þonne iċ hnītan sċeal, hringum gyrded, hearde wið heardum, hindan þȳrel, forð āsċūfan þæt mīnes frēan mōd freoþað middelnihtum.

    Oft I swallow that pricks me again, then I should strike, girded by rings, toughly against hard ones, stabbed from behind, shove forth that shields mind-mirth of my lord at midnights.

    c. 980, Exeter Book Riddle 91:
  2. to remain embedded, to be fastened, to stick

  3. to run, to lie (in a particular direction)

Conjugation

Conjugation of stician
PresentPast
Indicative
1st singular sticiġesticode
2nd singular sticaststicodest
3rd singular sticaþsticode
Plural sticiaþsticodon
Subjunctive
Singular sticiġesticode
Plural sticiġensticoden
Non-finite forms of stician
Form
Infinitive stician
Inflected infinitive sticienne
Imperative singular stica
Imperative plural sticiaþ
Present participle sticiende
Past participle sticodġesticod

All forms (15)

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *stikōną, closely related to *stikaną (“to stick”).

Descendants

stick

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