wik

See also: Wik

Choctaw

Etymology

From English week.

Noun

wīk (alienable)

1. week

Chuukese

Etymology

Borrowed from English week.

Noun

wik

1. week

Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʋɪk/

• Audio:

  (file)

• Rhymes: -ɪk

Verb

wik

1. inflection of wikken:
   1. first-person singular present indicative
   2. imperative

Iwam

Noun

wik

1. 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

1. Alternative form of wikke

Etymology 2

From Old English wēoce.

Noun

wik

1. Alternative form of weke (“wick”)

Nigerian Pidgin

Alternative forms

• week

Etymology

From English week.

Noun

wik

1. week

Old Saxon

Etymology

From Proto-West Germanic *wīk, from Latin vīcus, from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ-.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /wiːk/

Noun

wīk f

1. settlement, village, dwelling

Descendants

• Middle Low German: wîk

Tok Pisin

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Etymology 1

From English week.

Noun

wik

1. week
   • 1989, Buk Baibel long Tok Pisin, Port Moresby: Bible Society of Papua New Guinea, Jenesis 2:3:

     Na God i tambuim de namba 7 na em i tok olsem de namba 7 bilong olgeta wik em i bikpela de bilong em yet, long wanem, em i wokim pinis olgeta samting na long dispela de em i malolo.

     →New International Version translation

Etymology 2

From English wick.

Noun

wik

1. wick

Etymology 3

From English weak.

Adjective

wik

1. weak

Wadjiginy

Noun

wik

1. water

References

• Darrell T. Tryon, An introduction to Maranungku (Northern Australia) (1970) (quoted online in ASJP)

Yola

Noun

wik

1. Alternative form of wick

References

• Jacob Poole (d. 1827) (before 1828) William Barnes, editor, A Glossary, With some Pieces of Verse, of the old Dialect of the English Colony in the Baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, London: J. Russell Smith, published 1867, page 78