sucan

English

Noun

sucan (uncountable)

1. A Welsh food, a kind of thin flummery.

Anagrams

• Ancus, Cunas

Galician

Verb

sucan

1. third-person plural present indicative of sucar

Old English

Etymology

Inherited from Proto-West Germanic *sūkan, from Proto-Germanic *sūkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *suk-. Akin to sūgan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.kɑn/
• Rhymes: -uː.kɑn

Verb

sūcan

1. to suck
   • late 10th century, Ælfric, "The Passion of the Apostles Simon and Jude"

     Þā ongunnon ealla þā nædran tō ċēowenne heora flǣsċ and heora blōd sūcan þæt hīe þæt ātor ūt ātugen.

     Then all the snakes began to chew their flesh and suck their blood to draw the poison out.

Conjugation

Conjugation of sūcan (strong, class II)

infinitive	sūcan	sūcenne
indicative mood	present tense	past tense
first person singular	sūce	sēac
second person singular	sȳcst	suce
third person singular	sȳcþ	sēac
plural	sūcaþ	sucon
subjunctive	present tense	past tense
singular	sūce	suce
plural	sūcen	sucen
imperative
singular	sūc
plural	sūcaþ
participle	present	past
	sūcende	(ġe)socen

Descendants

• Middle English: souken, suken
  • English: suck