It might happen. German has many of the same ablaut series as english, so where english has sink-sank-sunk and wink-winked-winked, the corresponding german cogn

It might happen. German has many of the same ablaut series as english, so where english has sink-sank-sunk and wink-winked-winked, the corresponding german cognates have sinken-sank-gesunken and winken-winkte-gewinkt. But many people now use the early 70ies joke "gewunken" and think that "gewinkt" sounds weird.