avachir
French
verb
Definitions
- to make soft; make limp or flabby; cause to sag.
- to render incapable of producing effort.
Etymology
Inherited from Middle French avachir (lose one's energy force) inherited from Old French avachir (sag) derived from Frankish *waikijan (soften) derived from Proto-Germanic *waikwijaną (soften, avoid, make pliable, weaken, make weak) derived from Proto-Indo-European *weyg- (bend, wind, yield, turn, curve).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*weyg-
Gloss
bend, wind, yield, turn, curve
Concept
Semantic Field
Basic actions and technology
Ontological Category
Action/Process
Kanji
風
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- avachi French
- avachissable French
- avachissement French
- *weyg- Proto-Indo-European
- *weyk- Proto-Indo-European
- *waikwijaną Proto-Germanic
- *wikǭ Proto-Germanic
- veika Norwegian Nynorsk
- veikja Norwegian Nynorsk
- veikje Norwegian Nynorsk
- veikja Old Norse
- avachir Old French
- veikja Icelandic
- weihhen Old High German
- avachir Middle French
- *wēken Old Dutch
- vekia Old Swedish
- *waikijan Frankish
- *waikjan, to soften Frankish