vekia

Old Swedish

verb

Definitions

to make weak, to soften

Etymology

Inherited from Old Norse veikja (bow, make feeble, weaken) inherited from Proto-Germanic *waikwijaną (soften, avoid, make pliable, weaken, make weak).

Origin

Proto-Germanic

*waikwijaną

Gloss

soften, avoid, make pliable, weaken, make weak

Concept

Semantic Field

Social and political relations

Ontological Category

Action/Process

Emoji

Timeline

Distribution of cognates by language

Geogrpahic distribution of cognates

Cognates and derived terms

*weyg- Proto-Indo-European
*weyk- Proto-Indo-European
*waikwijaną Proto-Germanic
veika Norwegian Nynorsk
veikja Norwegian Nynorsk
veikje Norwegian Nynorsk
veikja Old Norse
veikja Icelandic
weihhen Old High German
*wēken Old Dutch
*waikijan Frankish
*waikjan, to soften Frankish