wik
See also: Wik
Choctaw
Etymology
From English week
Noun
wīk (alienable)
- week
Chuukese
Etymology
Borrowed from English week.
Noun
wik
- week
Iwam
Noun
wik
- woman
References
- transnewguinea.org, citing D. C. Laycock, Languages of the Lumi Subdistrict (West Sepik District), New Guinea (1968), Oceanic Linguistics, 7 (1): 36-66
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English wicce.
Adjective
wik
- Alternative form of wikke
Etymology 2
From Old English wēoce.
Noun
wik
- Alternative form of weke (“wick”)
Old Saxon
Etymology
From Latin vīcus, from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /wiːk/
Noun
wīk f
- settlement, village, dwelling
Descendants
- Middle Low German: wîk
- English toponym: Gatwick
Tok Pisin
Etymology 1
From English week.
Noun
wik
- week
- 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, 2:3:
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Etymology 2
From English wick.
Noun
wik
- wick
Etymology 3
From English weak.
Adjective
wik
- weak
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Wadjiginy
Noun
wik
- water
References
- Darrell T. Tryon, An introduction to Maranungku (Northern Australia) (1970) (quoted online in ASJP)