vacker
Swedish
/vakːər/
adj
Definitions
- beautiful, pretty
Etymology
Inherited from Old Norse vakr (growing fresh, vigilant, healthy, efficient, wakeful) inherited from Proto-Germanic *wakraz (awake, lively, brave, fresh, watchful, alert).
Origin
Proto-Germanic
*wakraz
Gloss
awake, lively, brave, fresh, watchful, alert
Concept
Semantic Field
The body
Ontological Category
Property
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- Wake English
- sleepwaker English
- wake English
- waker English
- aanwakkeren Dutch, Flemish
- wakker Dutch, Flemish
- *weǵ- Proto-Indo-European
- vakker Norwegian Bokmål
- *wakraz Proto-Germanic
- vakker Norwegian Nynorsk
- wacor Old English
- wakyr Middle English
- vakr Old Norse
- wacker Middle Dutch
- vakur Faroese
- vak Westrobothnian