Participles
| Present | læċċende |
| Past | (ġe)lǣht |
Indicative
Present
| 1st sing. | læċċe |
| 2nd sing. | læċest |
| 3rd sing. | læċeþ |
| 1st plur. | læċċaþ |
| 2nd plur. | læċċaþ |
| 3rd plur. | læċċaþ |
Past
| 1st sing. | lǣhte |
| 2nd sing. | lǣhtest |
| 3rd sing. | lǣhte |
| 1st plur. | lǣhton |
| 2nd plur. | lǣhton |
| 3rd plur. | lǣhton |
Subjunctive
Present
| 1st sing. | læċċe |
| 2nd sing. | læċċe |
| 3rd sing. | læċċe |
| 1st plur. | læċċen |
| 2nd plur. | læċċen |
| 3rd plur. | læċċen |
Past
| 1st sing. | lǣhte |
| 2nd sing. | lǣhte |
| 3rd sing. | lǣhte |
| 1st plur. | lǣhten |
| 2nd plur. | lǣhten |
| 3rd plur. | lǣhten |
Imperative
| Singular | læċe |
| Plural | læċċaþ |
Verbs conjugated like 'læccan'
læccan,
Verbs similar to 'læccan'
læcan,
leccan,
slæccan,
wæccan,
blæcan,
clyccan,
feccan,
gelæccan,
giccan,
gyccan,
Etymology
From Proto-West Germanic *lakkjan (“to seize”), from Proto-Germanic *lakjaną (“to grasp, seize”), evidently only attested in Old English, from Proto-Indo-European *lh₂g-ie-, which could be an isogloss shared with Ancient Greek λάζομαι (lázomai, “I seize, grasp”). See: Proto-Germanic '
*lakjaną'.
Sample Sentences
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The Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
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Ōsrēd, þe wæs Norþanhymbra cining, æfter wræcsīþe hām cumenum ġelǣht wæs ⁊ ofslagen on XVIII Kƚ Octoƀ ⁊ his līc liġþ æt Tīnamūþe. ⁊ Æþelrēd cining feng tō nīwan wīfe, sēo wæs Ælflēd ġehāten, on III Kƚ Octobr̃. (Osred, who was king of Northumbria, was apprehended and slain on the 17th of October after coming home from his foreign travels, and his body lies at Tynemouth. And King Aethelred took a new wife, whose name was Aelfled, on the third of October.)
Cognates
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