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cwic

cwic

Old English

Adjective

cwic

  1. living, live, alive
    Enoch cwic gewat mid cyning engla.
    Enoch departed alive with the king of angels.
  2. mentally agile; intelligent, keen

Declension

Weak Strong
case singular plural case singular plural
m n f m n f m n f
nominative cwica cwice cwice cwican nom. cwic cwic cwicu cwice cwicu, -e cwica, -e
accusative cwican cwice cwican acc. cwicne cwic cwice cwice cwicu, -e cwica, -e
genitive cwican cwicra, cwicena gen. cwices cwices cwicre cwicra
dative cwican cwicum dat. cwicum cwicum cwicre cwicum
instrumental cwice

Descendants

Etymology

From Proto-Germanic *kwikwaz, from Proto-Indo-European *gʷih₃wós ‎(“alive”). Cognates with Old Frisian quik, Old Saxon quik (Dutch kwik, Old High German kec (German keck, Old Norse kvikr (Swedish kvick, Gothic 𐌵𐌹𐌿𐍃 ‎(qius); and with Ancient Greek βίος ‎(bíos, “life”), Latin vīvus ‎(“alive”), Proto-Balto-Slavic *gīˀwas (Lithuanian gývas ‎(“alive”), Latvian dzīvs, Proto-Slavic *živъ ‎(“alive”)), Proto-Celtic *biwos (Irish beo ‎(“alive”), Welsh byw ‎(“alive”)) *gwitu- (Old Irish biad ‎(“nourishment”), Irish biathaigh ‎(“nourish”) and bia ‎(“food”)), Sanskrit जीव ‎(jīva).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /kwik/

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