An Etymological Dictionary of the German Language/Annotated/jucken

by Friedrich Kluge

jucken, verb, ‘to rub, scratch, itch,’ from the equivalent Middle High German jucken (jücken), Old High German jucchen, weak verb; corresponding to Anglo-Saxon gyccan, English to itch (Gothic *jukkjan). The stem juk, jukk, occurs also in Old High German jucchido, Anglo-Saxon gycða, ‘itch’ (Middle Low German jöken, Dutch jeuken, ‘to itch’).