veikr

Old Norse

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *waikwaz, whence also Old English wāc, Old High German weih.

Adjective

veikr

pliant
weak

Derived terms

veikja

Descendants

Danish: veg
Middle English: weyk, weike
English: weak

Scots: waik
Faroese: veikur

Icelandic: veikur
Norwegian: vek, veik (Bokmål), veik (Nynorsk)
Swedish: vek

References

veikr in Geir T. Zoëga (1910) A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic, Oxford: Clarendon Press

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