English Online Dictionary. What means ic? What does ic mean?
Translingual
Alternative forms
- (roman numeral): IC, XCIX, xcix
Symbol
ic
- (informal) A Roman numeral representing ninety-nine (99).
See also
- Previous: iic (ninety-eight, 98)
- Next: c (one hundred, 100)
K'iche'
Noun
ic
- (Classical K'iche') chile
Middle Dutch
Alternative forms
- icke (poetic)
Etymology
From Old Dutch ik, from Proto-Germanic *ek. The accusative and dative are Old Dutch mī, from Proto-Germanic *miz, originally only the dative form.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪk/
Pronoun
ic
- I
Inflection
Descendants
- Dutch: ik
- 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
Middle English
Pronoun
ic
- Alternative form of I (“I”)
Old English
Alternative forms
- ih, ich — Northumbrian
- iċċ
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ik, unstressed form of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /it͡ʃ/
- IPA(key): /ik/
Pronoun
iċ
- I
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 6:20
- The Life of Saint Margaret
- c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 6:20
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
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
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂. Compare Old Frisian ik, Old English iċ, Old Dutch ik, Old High German ih, Old Norse ek, Gothic 𐌹𐌺 (ik).
Pronoun
ic
- Alternative spelling of ik
Declension
Descendants
- Low German: ik
Romanian
Etymology
Borrowed from Hungarian ék.
Noun
ic n (plural icuri)
- wedge