Etymology

siccar

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Middle English siker ← Old English sicer
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The story

  1. Old English · inherited fromsicer
  2. Middle English · inherited fromsiker“secure, safe, stable, certain; gewiss, securely, safely, certainly”
  3. English todaysiccar

From Middle English siker (“secure, safe, stable, certain; gewiss, securely, safely, certainly”), from Old English sicer. For more, see sicker.

Words from the same roots

Middle Englishsiker all →

Old Englishsicer all →

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.