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-.

a. vicar, vicarious, vice-; vicissitude, from Latin *vix (genitive vicis), turn, situation, change;

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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