can – Scots verb conjugation

Infinitive

can

Participles

Present

can

Past

cud; coud

Negative Present

coudna

Verbs conjugated like can

can,

Etymology

From Middle English can, first and third person singular of connen, cunnen (“to be able, know how”), from Old English can(n), first and third person singular of cunnan (“to know how”), from Proto-West Germanic *kunnan, from Proto-Germanic *kunnaną, from Proto-Indo-European *ǵneh₃- (whence know). See: Proto-Germanic '*kunnaną'.