Source etymology 1 · variant 1/2
Original entry ↗An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking. · A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks. · A brief time; an instant. · The smallest possible amount.
Etymology tree Proto-West Germanic *winkōn Old English wincian Middle English wynken English wink From Middle English wynken, from Old English wincian (“to wink, make a sign, close the eyes, blink”, weak verb), from Proto-West Germanic *winkōn (“to close one's eyes”), from Proto-Indo-European *weng- (“to bow, bend, arch, curve”). Cognate with Middle Low German winken (“to blink, wink”), German winken (“to nod, beckon, make a sign”). Related also to Saterland Frisian wäänke, Dutch wenken (“to beckon, motion”), Latin vacillare (“sway”), Lithuanian véngti (“to swerve, avoid”), Albanian vang (“tire, felloe”), Sanskrit वङ्गति (vaṅgati, “(he, she) limps”), French guigner (“to eye, sneak a look at”).
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- Inherited-form mentionwynkenenm
- Inherited-form mentionwincianang
- Inherited-form mention*winkōngmw-pro
- Derivation mention*weng-ine-pro
- Cognate mentionwinkengml
- Cognate mentionwinkende
- Cognate mentionwäänkestq
- Cognate mentionwenkennl
- Cognate mentionvacillarela
- Cognate mentionvéngtilt
- Cognate mentionvangsq
- Cognate mentionवङ्गतिsa
- Cognate mentionguignerfr
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"An act of winking (a blinking of only one eye), or a message sent by winking.",
"A brief period of sleep; especially forty winks.",
"A brief time; an instant.",
"The smallest possible amount."
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