- wealcian
- \wealcian1 wv/t2 to curl; roll up
Old to modern English dictionary. 2013.
wealcian
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walk — I. verb Etymology: partly from Middle English walken (past welk, past participle walken), from Old English wealcan to roll, toss, journey about (past weolc, past participle wealcen) and partly from Middle English walkien (past walked, past… … New Collegiate Dictionary
Old English phonology — This article is part of a series on: Old English Dialects … Wikipedia
wel- — I. wel 1 To wish, will. Derivatives include wealth, gallop, gallant, and voluptuous. 1. well2, from Old English wel, well (< “according to one s wish”), from Germanic *wel … Universalium
Middle English phonology — The phonology of Middle English is necessarily somewhat speculative, since it is preserved purely as a written language. Nevertheless, there is a very large corpus of Middle English. The dialects of Middle English vary greatly over both time and… … Wikipedia
walken — (früher Vst) Vsw erw. fach. (11. Jh.), mhd. walken, ahd. giwalchen verfilzt , mndd. walken, mndl. walken Stammwort. Aus wg. * walk a Vst. (reduplizierend) walken , auch in ae. wealcian; dazu anord. valka Vsw. hin und herbewegen . Die… … Etymologisches Wörterbuch der deutschen sprache
walk — {{11}}walk (n.) late 14c., act of walking (see WALK (Cf. walk) (v.)). The noun meaning broad path in a garden is from 1530s; walk of life is from 1752. Sports sense of base on balls is recorded from 1905. To win in a walk (1854) is from horse… … Etymology dictionary
u̯el-7, u̯elǝ-, u̯lē- — u̯el 7, u̯elǝ , u̯lē English meaning: to turn, wind; round, etc.. Deutsche Übersetzung: “drehen, winden, wälzen” Note: extended u̯el(e)u , u̯l̥ ne u , u̯(e)lei (diese also “umwinden, einwickeln = einhũllen”) Material: A.… … Proto-Indo-European etymological dictionary
