英语词汇“Indo-European root: weik-”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

Indo-European root: weik-

释义

‌‌weik-²
Also weig-.
To bend, wind.
Derivatives include wicker, weak, and vicarious.

Form *weig‑.
1. 1. wych elm, from Old English wice, wych elm (having pliant branches);
  2. wicker, from Middle English wiker, wicker, from a Scandinavian source akin to Swedish viker, willow twig, wand;
  3. wicket, from Old North French wiket, wicket (< "door that turns"), from a Scandinavian source probably akin to Old Norse vikja, to bend, turn. a-c all from Germanic *wik‑.
2. 1. weak, from Old Norse veikr, pliant;
  2. weakfish, from Middle Dutch weec, weak, soft. Both a and b from Germanic *waikwaz.
3. week, from Old English wicu, wice, week, from Germanic *wikōn‑, "a turning," series.
Form *weik‑. Zero-grade form *wik‑.
1. vicar, vicarious, vice-; vicissitude, from Latin *vix (genitive vicis), turn, situation, change;
2. vetch, from Latin vicia, vetch (< "twining plant").

[Pokorny 4. u̯eik‑ 1130.]

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