weik-

weik-
I. weik-1
Clan (social unit above the household). Oldest form *weik̑-, becoming *weik- in centum languages.
1. Suffixed form *weik-slā-. villa, village, villain, villanelle, villein; bidonville, nasty, from Latin vīlla, country house, farm.
2. Suffixed o-grade form *woik-o-.
a. vicinage, vicinity; bailiwick, from Latin vīcus, quarter or district of a town, neighborhood;
b. androecium, autoecious, diocese, dioecious, dioicous, ecesis, ecology, economy, ecumenical, heteroecious, monoecious, parish, parochial, from Greek oikos, house, and its derivatives oikiā, a dwelling, and oikēsis, dwelling, administration.
3. Zero-grade form *wik-. Vaisya, from Sanskrit viśaḥ, dwelling, house.
 
[Pokorny u̯eik̑- 1131.]
  II. weik-2
Also weig-. To bend, wind.
Derivatives include wicker, weak, and vicarious.
I. Form *weig-.
1.
a. wych elm, from Old English wice, wych elm (having pliant branches);
b. wicker, from Middle English wiker, wicker, from a Scandinavian source akin to Swedish viker, willow twig, wand;
c. wicket, from Old North French wiket, wicket (< “door that turns”), from a Scandinavian source probably akin to Old Norse vikja, to bend, turn. a-c all from Germanic *wik-.
2.
a. weak, from Old Norse veikr, pliant;
b. weakfish, from Middle Dutch weec, weak, soft. Both a and b from Germanic *waikwaz.
3. week, from Old English wicu, wice, week, from Germanic *wikōn-, “a turning,” series.
II. Form *weik-. Zero-grade form *wik-.
b. vetch, from Latin vicia, vetch (< “twining plant”).
 
[Pokorny 4. u̯eik- 1130.]
  III. weik-3
To fight, conquer.
1. wight2, from Old Norse vīgr, able in battle, from Germanic *wīk-.
2. Nasalized zero-grade form *wi-n-k-. vanquish, victor, vincible; convict, convince, evict, evince, from Latin vincere, to conquer.
3. Zero-grade form *wik-. Ordovician, from Celtic Ordovices (*ordo-wik-), “those who fight with hammers” (*ordo-, hammer).
 
[Pokorny 2. u̯eik- 1128.]

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