Unnumbered source etymology
Original entry ↗moist; damp; clammy · juicy; mellow · watery · pliant; soft
From an unattested English dialectal word *weak (“moist; moisture”) + -y. Compare voky, woky. *Weak is from Middle English *weke, *wak, *wok, from Old Norse vǫkr (“moist; damp; wet”) and Old Norse vǫkvi, vǫkva (“moisture; juice”), from Proto-Germanic *wakwaz (“moist”) and *wakwô, *wakwijô (“moisture; wetness; open water; icehole”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”). Cognates Germanic cognates include Scots wak, wakke, waik (“moist; damp; wet", also "moisture; wetness”); Dutch wak (“icehole; blowhole”) and its earlier form, Middle Dutch wac (“flexible; liquid; moist; soft”); Middle Low German wake (“hole in the ice; open water in the ice”); Swedish vak (“hole in the ice”); Icelandic vökur (“moist”) and vökvi, vökva (“fluid”). Indo-European cognates include Latin ūmeō (“to be wet, moist or damp”), whence English humid, humidity, and humidify; Ancient Greek ὑγρός (hugrós, “wet; moist; fluid”, adjective), whence English hygro-; Sanskrit उक्षति (ukṣáti, “to wet; moisten; sprinkle”).
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- Root classification mention*wegʷ-ine-pro
- Inherited-form mention*wekeenm
- Derivation mentionvǫkrnon
- Derivation mentionvǫkvinon
- Derivation mention*wakwazgem-pro · moist
- Derivation mention*wegʷ-ine-pro · wet
- Cognate mentionwaksco
- Cognate mentionwaknl
- Cognate mentionwacdum
- Cognate mentionwakegml
- Cognate mentionvaksv
- Cognate mentionvökuris
- Cognate mentionūmeōla
- Cognate mentionὑγρόςgrc
- Cognate mentionउक्षतिsa · to wet; moisten; sprinkle
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