vík
Icelandic
/viːk/
noun
Definitions
- a small bay, a cove, an inlet
Etymology
Derived from Old Norse vík (inlet, bay, cove, fjord) derived from Proto-Germanic *wīkō (village, inlet).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wīkō
Gloss
village, inlet
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
村
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -wich English
- Wick English
- vīcus Latin
- *weyk- Proto-Indo-European
- vik Norwegian Bokmål
- *wīkō Proto-Germanic
- vik Swedish
- vik Norwegian Nynorsk
- wīc Old English
- vík Old Norse
- víkingr Old Norse
- vig Danish
- Hólmavík Icelandic
- Húsavík Icelandic
- hólmur Icelandic
- hús Icelandic
- vík Faroese
- *wīk Old Dutch
- vik Westrobothnian