"wikǭ" meaning in Proto-Germanic

See wikǭ in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Noun

IPA: /ˈwi.kɔ̃ː/
Etymology: From Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”), with semantic shift "to bend, give way" > "to shift" > "sequence, week". See also *wīkwaną (“to yield, retreat”). The concept of a week was borrowed by the Germanic peoples from the Romans around the 1st century. Etymology templates: {{etymon|gem-pro|der|ine-pro>*weyg->bend|id=sequence}}, {{der|gem-pro|ine-pro|*weyg-|t=to bend, wind, turn, yield}} Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”) Inflection templates: {{gem-decl-noun}} Forms: no-table-tags [table-tags], wikǭ [nominative, singular], wikōniz [nominative, plural], wikǭ [singular, vocative], wikōniz [plural, vocative], wikōnų [accusative, singular], wikōnunz [accusative, plural], wikōniz [genitive, singular], wikōnǫ̂ [genitive, plural], wikōni [dative, singular], wikōmaz [dative, plural], wikōnē [instrumental, singular], wikōmiz [instrumental, plural]
  1. sequence Tags: feminine, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-wikǭ-gem-pro-noun-vzfHwghx Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
  2. (late) week Tags: feminine, reconstruction
    Sense id: en-wikǭ-gem-pro-noun-bfN9qqRs Categories (other): Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries, Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 50 50 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 50 50 Disambiguation of Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header: 50 50
{
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmw-pro",
            "2": "*wikā"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *wikā\nOld English: wiċe, wicu, wucu, wieċe, weoce\nMiddle English: weke\nEnglish: week\nScots: wouk\nYola: wick, wik\nOld Frisian: wike\nNorth Frisian: weg\nSaterland Frisian: Wíek\nWest Frisian: wike\nOld Saxon: wika\nMiddle Low German: wēke\n→ North Frisian: Week\nGerman Low German: Week\nPlautdietsch: Wäakj\nOld Dutch: *wica\nMiddle Dutch: wēke\nDutch: week\nAfrikaans: week\nBerbice Creole Dutch: weki\nJersey Dutch: wêk\nNegerhollands: week\n→ Lokono: wiki\n→? Sranan Tongo: wiki\n→ Aukan: wiki\n→ Saramaccan: wíki\nLimburgish: waek\nOld High German: wehha, wecha, wohha, wocha\nMiddle High German: woche, wuche, weche\nAlemannic German:\nItalian Walser: bòchò, wuchu, wucha, wucchu\nBavarian: Woch, Wocha, Wochn\nCimbrian: bòcha, boch (Luserna)\nMòcheno: boch\nCentral Franconian: Woch, Wech, Wääch (Ripuarian; now widely obsolete)\nHunsrik: Woch\nLuxembourgish: Woch\nGerman: Woche\nRhine Franconian:\nPennsylvania German: Woch\nVilamovian: woch\nYiddish: וואָך (vokh)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *wikā\nOld English: wiċe, wicu, wucu, wieċe, weoce\nMiddle English: weke\nEnglish: week\nScots: wouk\nYola: wick, wik\nOld Frisian: wike\nNorth Frisian: weg\nSaterland Frisian: Wíek\nWest Frisian: wike\nOld Saxon: wika\nMiddle Low German: wēke\n→ North Frisian: Week\nGerman Low German: Week\nPlautdietsch: Wäakj\nOld Dutch: *wica\nMiddle Dutch: wēke\nDutch: week\nAfrikaans: week\nBerbice Creole Dutch: weki\nJersey Dutch: wêk\nNegerhollands: week\n→ Lokono: wiki\n→? Sranan Tongo: wiki\n→ Aukan: wiki\n→ Saramaccan: wíki\nLimburgish: waek\nOld High German: wehha, wecha, wohha, wocha\nMiddle High German: woche, wuche, weche\nAlemannic German:\nItalian Walser: bòchò, wuchu, wucha, wucchu\nBavarian: Woch, Wocha, Wochn\nCimbrian: bòcha, boch (Luserna)\nMòcheno: boch\nCentral Franconian: Woch, Wech, Wääch (Ripuarian; now widely obsolete)\nHunsrik: Woch\nLuxembourgish: Woch\nGerman: Woche\nRhine Franconian:\nPennsylvania German: Woch\nVilamovian: woch\nYiddish: וואָך (vokh)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "non",
            "2": "vika"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Norse: vika\nIcelandic: vika\nFaroese: vika\nNorn: voga\nNorwegian Nynorsk: veke, vika, viku; (dialectal) vyku, vuku, væka\nJamtish: vuku\nElfdalian: wiku, wikå\nOld Swedish: vika\nSwedish: vecka\nOld Danish: uka, uku, wiku\nScanian: uga\nDanish: uge\nNorwegian Bokmål: uke\nOld Gutnish: wika\nGutnish: vike, vika, viku, vikå",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Norse: vika\nIcelandic: vika\nFaroese: vika\nNorn: voga\nNorwegian Nynorsk: veke, vika, viku; (dialectal) vyku, vuku, væka\nJamtish: vuku\nElfdalian: wiku, wikå\nOld Swedish: vika\nSwedish: vecka\nOld Danish: uka, uku, wiku\nScanian: uga\nDanish: uge\nNorwegian Bokmål: uke\nOld Gutnish: wika\nGutnish: vike, vika, viku, vikå"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "got",
            "2": "𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉"
          },
          "expansion": "Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "smi-pro",
            "2": "*vëkkō",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Samic: *vëkkō",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Samic: *vëkkō (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "urj-fin-pro",
            "2": "*viikko",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Finnic: *viikko",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Finnic: *viikko (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "der",
        "3": "ine-pro>*weyg->bend",
        "id": "sequence"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*weyg-",
        "t": "to bend, wind, turn, yield"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”), with semantic shift \"to bend, give way\" > \"to shift\" > \"sequence, week\". See also *wīkwaną (“to yield, retreat”). The concept of a week was borrowed by the Germanic peoples from the Romans around the 1st century.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gem-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōn-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikǭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōniz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikǭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōniz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōnų",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōnunz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōniz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōnǫ̂",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōni",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōmaz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōnē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōmiz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "gem-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gem-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wikǭ",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "sequence"
      ],
      "id": "en-wikǭ-gem-pro-noun-vzfHwghx",
      "links": [
        [
          "sequence",
          "sequence"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "categories": [
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with 1 entry",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Pages with entries",
          "parents": [],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        },
        {
          "_dis": "50 50",
          "kind": "other",
          "name": "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
          "parents": [
            "Entries with incorrect language header",
            "Entry maintenance"
          ],
          "source": "w+disamb"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "week"
      ],
      "id": "en-wikǭ-gem-pro-noun-bfN9qqRs",
      "links": [
        [
          "week",
          "week"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "late",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(late) week"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwi.kɔ̃ː/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Brill Publishers"
  ],
  "word": "wikǭ"
}
{
  "categories": [
    "Pages with 1 entry",
    "Pages with entries",
    "Proto-Germanic entries with incorrect language header",
    "Proto-Germanic feminine nouns",
    "Proto-Germanic lemmas",
    "Proto-Germanic nouns",
    "Proto-Germanic terms derived from Proto-Indo-European",
    "Proto-Germanic terms derived from the Proto-Indo-European root *weyg-",
    "Proto-Germanic ōn-stem nouns",
    "gem-pro:Time"
  ],
  "descendants": [
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "gmw-pro",
            "2": "*wikā"
          },
          "expansion": "Proto-West Germanic: *wikā\nOld English: wiċe, wicu, wucu, wieċe, weoce\nMiddle English: weke\nEnglish: week\nScots: wouk\nYola: wick, wik\nOld Frisian: wike\nNorth Frisian: weg\nSaterland Frisian: Wíek\nWest Frisian: wike\nOld Saxon: wika\nMiddle Low German: wēke\n→ North Frisian: Week\nGerman Low German: Week\nPlautdietsch: Wäakj\nOld Dutch: *wica\nMiddle Dutch: wēke\nDutch: week\nAfrikaans: week\nBerbice Creole Dutch: weki\nJersey Dutch: wêk\nNegerhollands: week\n→ Lokono: wiki\n→? Sranan Tongo: wiki\n→ Aukan: wiki\n→ Saramaccan: wíki\nLimburgish: waek\nOld High German: wehha, wecha, wohha, wocha\nMiddle High German: woche, wuche, weche\nAlemannic German:\nItalian Walser: bòchò, wuchu, wucha, wucchu\nBavarian: Woch, Wocha, Wochn\nCimbrian: bòcha, boch (Luserna)\nMòcheno: boch\nCentral Franconian: Woch, Wech, Wääch (Ripuarian; now widely obsolete)\nHunsrik: Woch\nLuxembourgish: Woch\nGerman: Woche\nRhine Franconian:\nPennsylvania German: Woch\nVilamovian: woch\nYiddish: וואָך (vokh)",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Proto-West Germanic: *wikā\nOld English: wiċe, wicu, wucu, wieċe, weoce\nMiddle English: weke\nEnglish: week\nScots: wouk\nYola: wick, wik\nOld Frisian: wike\nNorth Frisian: weg\nSaterland Frisian: Wíek\nWest Frisian: wike\nOld Saxon: wika\nMiddle Low German: wēke\n→ North Frisian: Week\nGerman Low German: Week\nPlautdietsch: Wäakj\nOld Dutch: *wica\nMiddle Dutch: wēke\nDutch: week\nAfrikaans: week\nBerbice Creole Dutch: weki\nJersey Dutch: wêk\nNegerhollands: week\n→ Lokono: wiki\n→? Sranan Tongo: wiki\n→ Aukan: wiki\n→ Saramaccan: wíki\nLimburgish: waek\nOld High German: wehha, wecha, wohha, wocha\nMiddle High German: woche, wuche, weche\nAlemannic German:\nItalian Walser: bòchò, wuchu, wucha, wucchu\nBavarian: Woch, Wocha, Wochn\nCimbrian: bòcha, boch (Luserna)\nMòcheno: boch\nCentral Franconian: Woch, Wech, Wääch (Ripuarian; now widely obsolete)\nHunsrik: Woch\nLuxembourgish: Woch\nGerman: Woche\nRhine Franconian:\nPennsylvania German: Woch\nVilamovian: woch\nYiddish: וואָך (vokh)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "non",
            "2": "vika"
          },
          "expansion": "Old Norse: vika\nIcelandic: vika\nFaroese: vika\nNorn: voga\nNorwegian Nynorsk: veke, vika, viku; (dialectal) vyku, vuku, væka\nJamtish: vuku\nElfdalian: wiku, wikå\nOld Swedish: vika\nSwedish: vecka\nOld Danish: uka, uku, wiku\nScanian: uga\nDanish: uge\nNorwegian Bokmål: uke\nOld Gutnish: wika\nGutnish: vike, vika, viku, vikå",
          "name": "desctree"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Old Norse: vika\nIcelandic: vika\nFaroese: vika\nNorn: voga\nNorwegian Nynorsk: veke, vika, viku; (dialectal) vyku, vuku, væka\nJamtish: vuku\nElfdalian: wiku, wikå\nOld Swedish: vika\nSwedish: vecka\nOld Danish: uka, uku, wiku\nScanian: uga\nDanish: uge\nNorwegian Bokmål: uke\nOld Gutnish: wika\nGutnish: vike, vika, viku, vikå"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "got",
            "2": "𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉"
          },
          "expansion": "Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō)",
          "name": "desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "Gothic: 𐍅𐌹𐌺𐍉 (wikō)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "smi-pro",
            "2": "*vëkkō",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Samic: *vëkkō",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Samic: *vëkkō (see there for further descendants)"
    },
    {
      "depth": 1,
      "templates": [
        {
          "args": {
            "1": "urj-fin-pro",
            "2": "*viikko",
            "bor": "1"
          },
          "expansion": "→ Proto-Finnic: *viikko",
          "name": "desc"
        },
        {
          "args": {},
          "expansion": "(see there for further descendants)",
          "name": "see desc"
        }
      ],
      "text": "→ Proto-Finnic: *viikko (see there for further descendants)"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_templates": [
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "der",
        "3": "ine-pro>*weyg->bend",
        "id": "sequence"
      },
      "expansion": "",
      "name": "etymon"
    },
    {
      "args": {
        "1": "gem-pro",
        "2": "ine-pro",
        "3": "*weyg-",
        "t": "to bend, wind, turn, yield"
      },
      "expansion": "Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”)",
      "name": "der"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (“to bend, wind, turn, yield”), with semantic shift \"to bend, give way\" > \"to shift\" > \"sequence, week\". See also *wīkwaną (“to yield, retreat”). The concept of a week was borrowed by the Germanic peoples from the Romans around the 1st century.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "no-table-tags",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "table-tags"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "gem-decl-noun",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "inflection-template"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "ōn-stem",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "class"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikǭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōniz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "nominative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikǭ",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "singular",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōniz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "plural",
        "vocative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōnų",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōnunz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "accusative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōniz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōnǫ̂",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "genitive",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōni",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōmaz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "dative",
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōnē",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "singular"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "wikōmiz",
      "source": "inflection",
      "tags": [
        "instrumental",
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "inflection_templates": [
    {
      "args": {},
      "name": "gem-decl-noun"
    }
  ],
  "lang": "Proto-Germanic",
  "lang_code": "gem-pro",
  "original_title": "Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/wikǭ",
  "pos": "noun",
  "senses": [
    {
      "glosses": [
        "sequence"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "sequence",
          "sequence"
        ]
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    },
    {
      "glosses": [
        "week"
      ],
      "links": [
        [
          "week",
          "week"
        ]
      ],
      "qualifier": "late",
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(late) week"
      ],
      "tags": [
        "feminine",
        "reconstruction"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "sounds": [
    {
      "ipa": "/ˈwi.kɔ̃ː/"
    }
  ],
  "wikipedia": [
    "Brill Publishers"
  ],
  "word": "wikǭ"
}

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This page is a part of the kaikki.org machine-readable Proto-Germanic dictionary. This dictionary is based on structured data extracted on 2025-03-09 from the enwiktionary dump dated 2025-03-02 using wiktextract (32c88e6 and 633533e). The data shown on this site has been post-processed and various details (e.g., extra categories) removed, some information disambiguated, and additional data merged from other sources. See the raw data download page for the unprocessed wiktextract data.

If you use this data in academic research, please cite Tatu Ylonen: Wiktextract: Wiktionary as Machine-Readable Structured Data, Proceedings of the 13th Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC), pp. 1317-1325, Marseille, 20-25 June 2022. Linking to the relevant page(s) under https://kaikki.org would also be greatly appreciated.