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wik

See also: Wik

Choctaw

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Etymology

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From English week.

Noun

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wīk (alienable)

  1. week

Chuukese

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Etymology

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Borrowed from English week.

Noun

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wik

  1. week

Dutch

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Pronunciation

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  • IPA(key): /ʋɪk/
  • Audio:(file)
  • Rhymes: -ɪk

Verb

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wik

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

Iwam

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Noun

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wik

  1. woman

References

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  • 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

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Etymology 1

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From Old English wicce.

Adjective

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wik

  1. Alternative form of wikke

Etymology 2

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From Old English wēoce.

Noun

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wik

  1. Alternative form of weke (“wick”)

Nigerian Pidgin

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Alternative forms

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Etymology

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From English week.

Noun

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wik

  1. week

Old Saxon

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Etymology

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

Pronunciation

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Noun

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wīk f

  1. settlement, village, dwelling

Descendants

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  • Middle Low German: wîk

Tok Pisin

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Etymology 1

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From English week.

Noun

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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

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From English wick.

Noun

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wik

  1. wick

Etymology 3

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From English weak.

Adjective

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wik

  1. weak

Wadjiginy

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Noun

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wik

  1. water

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

Yola

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Noun

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wik

  1. Alternative form of wick

References

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  • 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
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