Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wīk

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vīcus (“village”), displacing native *wīhs (“village, settlement”), from Proto-Germanic *wīhsą, both deriving from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (“village”).

Noun

*wīk m or n^[1]

dwelling, village

Inflection

Masculine a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*wīk
Genitive	*wīkas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*wīk	wīkō, wīkōs
Accusative	*wīk	*wīkā
Genitive	*wīkas	*wīkō
Dative	*wīkē	*wīkum
Instrumental	*wīku	*wīkum

Neuter a-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*wīk
Genitive	*wīkas
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*wīk	*wīku
Accusative	*wīk	*wīku
Genitive	*wīkas	*wīkō
Dative	*wīkē	*wīkum
Instrumental	*wīku	*wīkum

Related terms

*wīku

Descendants

Old English: wīċ n
- Middle English: wic, wike, wyk, wych
  - English: -wick, -wich (in placenames)
Old Frisian: wīk f
- West Frisian: wyk m or f
Old Saxon: wīk f
- Middle Low German: wîk
Old Dutch: *wīc
- Middle Dutch: wijc m
  - Dutch: wijk, (obsolete) wyck
    - Afrikaans: wyk
  - Limburgish: wiek
Old High German: wīh m
- Middle High German: wīch
  - German: Weich (archaic or obsolete)

References

^ Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 210: “PWGmc *wīk”

[1] Ringe, Donald, Taylor, Ann (2014) The Development of Old English (A Linguistic History of English; 2), Oxford: Oxford University Press, →ISBN, page 210: “PWGmc *wīk”

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