Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗verb
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryto make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating.
From Middle English walken, from Old English wealcian (“to roll up; muffle up”), from Proto-West Germanic *walkōn, from Proto-Germanic *walkōną (“to roll about; full (cloth)”). Cognate with Scots waulk (“to full”), Dutch walken (“to full”), German walken (“to full”), Danish valke (“to full”), Swedish valka (“to full”). Doublet of walk.
Relationships mentioned by the source
These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Inherited-form mentionwalkenenm
- Inherited-form mentionwealcianang · to roll up; muffle up
- Inherited-form mention*walkōngmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*walkōnągem-pro · to roll about; full (cloth)
- Cognate mentionwaulksco · to full
- Cognate mentionwalkennl · to full
- Cognate mentionwalkende · to full
- Cognate mentionvalkeda · to full
- Cognate mentionvalkasv · to full
- Doublet mentionwalken
Inspect preserved source fields
Raw extraction fields are retained for auditing. Their order does not establish ancestry.
{
"templates": [
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "enm",
"3": "walken"
},
"expansion": "Middle English walken"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "ang",
"3": "wealcian",
"t": "to roll up; muffle up"
},
"expansion": "Old English wealcian (“to roll up; muffle up”)"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gmw-pro",
"3": "*walkōn"
},
"expansion": "Proto-West Germanic *walkōn"
},
{
"name": "inh",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "gem-pro",
"3": "*walkōną",
"t": "to roll about; full (cloth)"
},
"expansion": "Proto-Germanic *walkōną (“to roll about; full (cloth)”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "sco",
"2": "waulk",
"t": "to full"
},
"expansion": "Scots waulk (“to full”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "nl",
"2": "walken",
"t": "to full"
},
"expansion": "Dutch walken (“to full”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "de",
"2": "walken",
"t": "to full"
},
"expansion": "German walken (“to full”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "da",
"2": "valke",
"t": "to full"
},
"expansion": "Danish valke (“to full”)"
},
{
"name": "cog",
"args": {
"1": "sv",
"2": "valka",
"t": "to full"
},
"expansion": "Swedish valka (“to full”)"
},
{
"name": "doublet",
"args": {
"1": "en",
"2": "walk"
},
"expansion": "Doublet of walk"
}
],
"links": [
[
"walken",
"walken#Middle_English"
],
[
"wealcian",
"wealcian#Old_English"
],
[
"*walkōn",
"Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/walkōn"
],
[
"*walkōną",
"Reconstruction:Proto-Germanic/walkōną"
],
[
"waulk",
"waulk#Scots"
],
[
"walken",
"walken#Dutch"
],
[
"walken",
"walken#German"
],
[
"valke",
"valke#Danish"
],
[
"valka",
"valka#Swedish"
],
[
"walk",
"walk#English"
]
],
"references": [],
"descendants": [],
"lexical": [
{
"pos": "verb",
"glosses": [
"to make cloth (especially tweed in Scotland) denser and more felt-like by soaking and beating."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
],
"recordId": "e719075c478739975831e361a070c9ae0634e839bca3f0d7d03fba7e8ea00659",
"rawRecordSha256": "06a9d8c57c638bceeb35bd7a6922a7c2a41bd41c6172b439959ba7960f4b8ba7",
"sourceRecordOrdinal": 519822
}
],
"omittedAuxiliaryFields": {
"templates": 0,
"links": 0,
"references": 0,
"descendants": 0,
"lexicalRecords": 0,
"lexicalSenses": 0,
"glosses": 0
}
}