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Reconstruction:Old Norse/hvekka
Old Norse
Etymology
Uncertain; presumably from Proto-Germanic *hwekkaną, from Proto-Indo-European *kʷeǵ⁽ʰ⁾-néw-ti, from *kʷeǵ⁽ʰ⁾- (“to flee, escape”) + *-néwti. Cognate with Proto-Slavic *čeznǫti (“to disappear”), Latin conquinīscō (“to crouch down”).[1]
Verb
*hvekka
- to be startled
Descendants
- Faroese: kvökka
- Norwegian: kvekka
- Swedish: väkka (dialectal)
References
- Kroonen, Guus (2013), “*hwekkan-”, in Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 11), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, page 265