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Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/kwik(k)w
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Proto-West Germanic
Etymology
From Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz.
Adjective
*kwik(k)w[1]
- alive
- lively, quick
Inflection
This adjective needs an inflection-table template.
Descendants
- Old English: cwic, cuc, cucu, cwicu, cwuc, cwucu
- Middle English: quyk, quic, quicke, quik, quike, quikke, quycke, quyke, quykke, qwicke, qwik, qwyck, qwyk, qwyke; cwic, cwich, cwick, cwuc; qwhyke, weke, whik, whike, whikk, whyk, whyke, whykke
- English: quick (dialectal wick)
- → Ido: quik
- Scots: quick, queek
- English: quick (dialectal wick)
- Middle English: quyk, quic, quicke, quik, quike, quikke, quycke, quyke, quykke, qwicke, qwik, qwyck, qwyk, qwyke; cwic, cwich, cwick, cwuc; qwhyke, weke, whik, whike, whikk, whyk, whyke, whykke
- Old Frisian: quik
- North Frisian: quick, queck
- Saterland Frisian: kwik
- West Frisian: kwik, kwyk
- Old Saxon: quik
- Middle Low German: *quik (in derivatives and compounds: e.g. quikpenninc, quikstērt, quiksilver)
- German Low German: quick
- → German: quick (chiefly in quicklebendig)
- Middle Low German: *quik (in derivatives and compounds: e.g. quikpenninc, quikstērt, quiksilver)
- Old Dutch: quic
- Middle Dutch: quic
- Dutch: kwik, kwiek
- Middle Dutch: quic
- Old High German: quic, quec, chëch
- Middle High German: quëc, këc
- German: keck; (qu- in Quecksilber, erquicken)
- → Danish: kæk
- → Dutch: kek
- → Norwegian: kjekk
- → Swedish: käck
- German: keck; (qu- in Quecksilber, erquicken)
- Middle High German: quëc, këc
References
- Ringe, Donald; Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 48: “PWGmc *kwi/eku, *kwi/ek(k)wa-”