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veikr
veikr
Old Norse
Adjective
veikr
pliant
weak
Descendants
Danish:
veg
Middle English:
weike
English:
weak
Faroese:
veikur
Icelandic:
veikur
Norwegian:
vek
(
bokmål
)
,
veik
(
nynorsk
)
Swedish:
vek
Derived terms
veikja
References
veikr
in Geir T. Zoëga
(1910)
A Concise Dictionary of Old Icelandic
, Oxford
:
Clarendon Press
Etymology
From
Proto-Germanic
*waikwaz
, whence also Old English
wāc
, Old High German
weih
.
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