Source etymology 1
Original entry ↗adj
Selected source glosses provide context, not a complete modern definition inventoryWatchful; vigilant; alert.
From Middle English wakyr, from Old English wacor, waccor (“watchful, vigilant”), from Proto-West Germanic *wakr, from Proto-Germanic *wakraz (“awake, watchful”), equivalent to wake + -er. Cognate with Scots wakir (“watchful”), Dutch wakker (“awake”), German wacker (“awake, alert, capable, brave”), Swedish vacker (“wakeful, watchful, fair, comely”). Also precisely cognate with Sanskrit वज्र (vájra, “adamantine”), both ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *wóǵ-ros (“strong, lively”), and therefore a doublet of vajra. Further related through the same Indo-European root to vigil, vigor, and vegetable.
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These are extracted mentions, not a timeline or a verified sequence of immediate parents.
- Root classification mention*weǵ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mentionwakyrenm
- Inherited-form mentionwacorang
- Inherited-form mention*wakrgmw-pro
- Inherited-form mention*wakrazgem-pro
- Cognate mentionwakirsco
- Cognate mentionwakkernl
- Cognate mentionwackerde
- Cognate mentionvackersv
- Inherited-form mention*weǵ-#Derived_termsine-pro
- Doublet mentionvajraen
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