weik-2. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

Appendix I

Indo-European Roots

ENTRY:	weik-²
DEFINITION:	Also weig-. To bend, wind. Derivatives include wicker, weak, and vicarious. I. Form weig-. 1a.* wych elm, from Old English wice, wych elm (having pliant branches); b. wicker, from Middle English wiker, wicker, from a Scandinavian source akin to Swedish viker, willow twig, wand; c. 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-. 2a.* weak, from Old Norse veikr, pliant; b. weakfish, from Middle Dutch weec, weak, soft. Both a and b from Germanic waikwaz. 3. week, from Old English wicu,* wice, week, from Germanic wikn-, “a turning,” series. II.* Form weik-. Zero-grade form wik-. a. vicar, vicarious, vice-; vicissitude, from Latin vix (genitive vicis), turn, situation, change; b. vetch, from Latin vicia,* vetch (< “twining plant”). (Pokorny 4. eik- 1130.)


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