iecan

• ǣċan, ēċan, īċan, ȳċan, ȳċean

From Proto-West Germanic *aukijan (“to increase”), equivalent to ēaca +‎ -an. Related to Proto-Germanic *aukaną (“to increase”) and Latin augeō.

• IPA^(key): /ˈi͜yː.t͡ʃɑn/

īeċan (transitive)

1. to increase or enlarge
   • 10th century, Exeter Book Riddle 30‎^[1]:

     Þonne iċ mec onhebbe ond hī onhnīgaþ tō mē, moniġe mid miltse, þǣr iċ monnum sceal īċan upcyme ēadiġnesse.

     When I raise myself up and they bow down to me, many with mercy, then I shall increase rising of happiness for men.

2. to add
   • Laws of Hlothhere and Eadric

     Þis syndon þā dōmas ðe Hloþhære ⁊ Ēadrīc, Cantwara cyningas, asetton. Hloþhære ⁊ Ēadrīc, Cantwara cyningas, ēcton þā ǣ, þā ðe heora aldoras ǣr ġeworhten, ðyssum dōmum þe hȳr efter sæġeþ.

     These are the laws that Hlothhere and Eadric, kings of Kent, laid down. Hlothhere and Eadric, kings of Kent, added these laws listed hereafter to the laws their ancestors created.

3. to endow
4. to impregnate

• The intransitive equivalents are ēacan and ēacian.

• wanian

• ætīeċan
• ġeīeċan

• Middle English: echen