"lician" meaning in Old English

See lician in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

IPA: /ˈliː.ki.ɑn/
Etymology: From Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną. Etymology templates: {{root|ang|ine-pro|*leyg-|id=like}}, {{inh|ang|gmw-pro|*līkēn}} Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, {{inh|ang|gem-pro|*līkāną}} Proto-Germanic *līkāną Head templates: {{ang-verb|līcian}} līcian Inflection templates: {{ang-conj|līcian<w2>}} Forms: līcian [canonical], weak [table-tags], līcian [infinitive], līcienne [infinitive], līciġe [first-person, present, singular], līcode [first-person, past, singular], līcast [present, second-person, singular], līcodest [past, second-person, singular], līcaþ [present, singular, third-person], līcode [past, singular, third-person], līciaþ [plural, present], līcodon [past, plural], līciġe [present, singular], līcode [past, singular], līciġen [plural, present], līcoden [past, plural], līca [imperative, past, present, singular], līciaþ [imperative, past, plural, present], līciende [imperative, present], līcod [imperative, past], ġelīcod [imperative, past]
  1. to like (impersonal, with dative subject)
    Sense id: en-lician-ang-verb-Ywl7aDTX Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50
  2. to please, appeal to (+ dative)
    Sense id: en-lician-ang-verb--rP9PdYf Categories (other): Old English entries with incorrect language header, Pages with 2 entries, Pages with entries Disambiguation of Old English entries with incorrect language header: 51 49 Disambiguation of Pages with 2 entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: ġelīcian, mislīcian Related terms: lystan
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  "derived": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "ġelīcian"
    },
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "mislīcian"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "liken"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: liken, like, liki, likie, liky, lyke, lyken, lyky, licen, licien, likien, likin, lykie, lykyen (Early Middle English)\nEnglish: like\nScots: like\nYola: lick, licke, lik",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: liken, like, liki, likie, liky, lyke, lyken, lyky, licen, licien, likien, likin, lykie, lykyen (Early Middle English)\nEnglish: like\nScots: like\nYola: lick, licke, lik"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*leyg-",
        "id": "like"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*līkēn"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *līkēn",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*līkāną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *līkāną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "līcian",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "2",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcian",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcienne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcast",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcodest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcodon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciġen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcoden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līca",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġelīcod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "līcian"
      },
      "expansion": "līcian",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "līcian<w2>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "_dis1": "0 0",
      "word": "lystan"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Is that because we all like you so much?",
          "text": "Is þæt for þon þe ūs eallum þū swā wel līcast?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I like the snow because it makes the town quiet.",
          "text": "Me līcaþ sē snāw for þon þe hē dēþ þā burg stille",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to like (impersonal, with dative subject)"
      ],
      "id": "en-lician-ang-verb-Ywl7aDTX",
      "links": [
        [
          "like",
          "like"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "51 49",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 2 entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to please, appeal to (+ dative)"
      ],
      "id": "en-lician-ang-verb--rP9PdYf",
      "links": [
        [
          "please",
          "please"
        ],
        [
          "appeal",
          "appeal"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈliː.ki.ɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lician"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Old English class 2 weak verbs",
    "Old English entries with incorrect language header",
    "Old English impersonal verbs",
    "Old English lemmas",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Old English terms derived from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *leyg- (like)",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-Germanic",
    "Old English terms inherited from Proto-West Germanic",
    "Old English terms with IPA pronunciation",
    "Old English verbs",
    "Pages with 2 entries",
    "Pages with entries"
  ],
  "derived": [
    {
      "word": "ġelīcian"
    },
    {
      "word": "mislīcian"
    }
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "enm",
            "2": "liken"
          },
          "expansion": "Middle English: liken, like, liki, likie, liky, lyke, lyken, lyky, licen, licien, likien, likin, lykie, lykyen (Early Middle English)\nEnglish: like\nScots: like\nYola: lick, licke, lik",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Middle English: liken, like, liki, likie, liky, lyke, lyken, lyky, licen, licien, likien, likin, lykie, lykyen (Early Middle English)\nEnglish: like\nScots: like\nYola: lick, licke, lik"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*leyg-",
        "id": "like"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "root"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gmw-pro",
        "3": "*līkēn"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *līkēn",
      "name": "inh"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "ang",
        "2": "gem-pro",
        "3": "*līkāną"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Germanic *līkāną",
      "name": "inh"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-West Germanic *līkēn, from Proto-Germanic *līkāną.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "līcian",
      "tags": [
        "canonical"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "weak",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ang-conj",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "2",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcian",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcienne",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "infinitive"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "first-person",
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcast",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcodest",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "second-person",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcodon",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciġe",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcode",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciġen",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcoden",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "past",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līca",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "present",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciaþ",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past",
        "plural",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līciende",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "līcod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ġelīcod",
      "source": "conjugation",
      "tags": [
        "imperative",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "head_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "līcian"
      },
      "expansion": "līcian",
      "name": "ang-verb"
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "līcian<w2>"
      },
      "name": "ang-conj"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Old English",
  "lang_code": "ang",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "lystan"
    }
  ],
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        "Old English terms with usage examples"
      ],
      "examples": [
        {
          "english": "Is that because we all like you so much?",
          "text": "Is þæt for þon þe ūs eallum þū swā wel līcast?",
          "type": "example"
        },
        {
          "english": "I like the snow because it makes the town quiet.",
          "text": "Me līcaþ sē snāw for þon þe hē dēþ þā burg stille",
          "type": "example"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "to like (impersonal, with dative subject)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "like",
          "like"
        ]
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "to please, appeal to (+ dative)"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "please",
          "please"
        ],
        [
          "appeal",
          "appeal"
        ],
        [
          "to",
          "to"
        ]
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈliː.ki.ɑn/"
    }
  ],
  "word": "lician"
}

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