English
licker
Licker comes from Middle English likkere.
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500likkere
- Englishearliest quotation 1913licker
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed deepest recorded ancestor
Lineage
- Middle Englishc. 1150–1500likkere
- Englishearliest quotation 1913licker
Earliest quotation: 1913, The Sun, Sydney: “When the back of the stamp is licked the…”
Formed from lick + -er
Proto-Indo-European *leyǵʰ- ‘to lick’
Proto-Germanic *likkōną ‘to lick’
Proto-West Germanic *likkōn ‘to lick’
Old English liccian ‘to lick’
Middle English likken ‘to lick’
English lick
Every English word from Middle English likkere
Today it means
noun Someone or something that licks.
Language periods are conventional ranges, not dates for this word.
Etymograph / Middle English likkere / licker