sucan

English

Noun

sucan (uncountable)

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

Anagrams

• Ancus, Cunas

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Old English

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *sūkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *suk-. Akin to sūgan.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈsuː.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 ātugon.

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

Conjugation

Conjugation of sūcan (strong class 2)

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