ic

English Online Dictionary. What means ic‎? What does ic mean?

Translingual

Alternative forms

• (roman numeral): IC, XCIX, xcix

Symbol

ic

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

See also

• Previous: iic (ninety-eight, 98)
• Next: c (one hundred, 100)

K'iche'

Noun

ic

1. (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

1. 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

1. Alternative form of I (“I”)

Old English

Alternative forms

• ih, iċċ

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *ik, from Proto-Germanic *ik, unstressed form of *ek, from Proto-Indo-European *éǵh₂.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /it͡ʃ/

Pronoun

iċ

1. I
   • c. 990, Wessex Gospels, John 6:20

   • The Life of Saint Margaret

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

1. Alternative spelling of ik

Declension

Descendants

• Low German: ik

Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from Hungarian ék.

Noun

ic n (plural icuri)

1. wedge

Declension