wayke

adj.

WA waik, waike

'weak' (Modern English weak)

Etymology

cp. OIcel veikr (veykr) ‘weak’ < PGmc *weik(w)a-; cp. OE wāc, OS wēk, OHG weih.

PGmc Ancestor

*weik(w)a-

Proposed ON Etymon (OIcel representative)

veikr (veykr) ‘weak’ 
(ONP veikr (adj.))

Other Scandinavian Reflexes

Far veikur, Icel veikur, Norw veik, Dan veg, Sw vek

OE Cognate

wāc 'weak'

Phonological and morphological markers

ON /ei/ &lt; PGmc */ai/

Summary category

A1*

Attestation

Recorded earlier than Havelok only in surname material (which includes documents from Sus. and War., MED sense 8), but widespread from the 14c. onwards.

Occurrences in the Gersum Corpus

Gaw 282; WA 1271, 2077, 3587 etc.

Bibliography

MED weik (adj.) , OED weak (adj. and n.) , HTOED , Dance wayke, Bj. 52, de Vries veikr, Mag. veikur, Bj-L. veik, Heid. waik(w)a-, Seebold weik-a-, Orel *waikaz, Kroonen *waika-, AEW wāc