Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/tēkaną

Etymology
From an apparent, with the only formal cognate being 🇨🇬,. Ringe suggests that either pre-Germanic or pre-Tocharian borrowed the word from the other.

Several authors have noted the similarity of this root to 🇨🇬 (whence, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), but the two cannot be reconciled by traditional means, as the "unshifted" Germanic is not expected to come from PIE  in this phonetic environment, nor should Germanic  (as in the 🇨🇬 descendant only) have developed from PIE , and Tocharian short  cannot continue PIE  under normal conditions. However, the stop consonant in Germanic can be explained if it developed from a cluster with voicing assimilation from earlier. According to the hypothesis by Mottausch, the reduplicated form (as in, ) regularly lost its laryngeal in pre-Germanic, and so the resulting  would have required voicing assimilation to , which was subsequently back-formed to  to restore the normal pattern of reduplication, resulting in the unshifted Germanic /t/. Additionally, the pre-form that resulted in the long vowel in Germanic can be maintained, if it is assumed that the second stop in this pre-Germanic  underwent dissimilation to glottalic  = [ʔ]. Kroonen upholds this derivation, though he notes its great difficulties. For a partial alternative, he suggests a back-formation of from iterative  (cf. his similar derivation of  from ).

Verb

 * 1) to touch
 * 2) to grasp; to take

Descendants
The North and West Germanic descendants have a class 6 strong verb, while Gothic has a class 7 verb. This is presumably a result of the vowel change in the past, combined with the change of ē to ā in those languages. This gave the ablaut pattern ā-ō-ā which could easily be changed into the a-ō-a of the 6th class.
 * (= ?, otherwise secondarily geminated)
 * (= ?, otherwise secondarily geminated)
 * (= ?, otherwise secondarily geminated)