Reconstruction:Proto-West Germanic/wikkjā

This Proto-West Germanic entry contains reconstructed terms and roots. As such, the term(s) in this entry are not directly attested, but are hypothesized to have existed based on comparative evidence.

Proto-West Germanic

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin vicia (“vetch”).

Noun

*wikkjā f

1. (Continental West Germanic) vetch (plant of the genus Vicia)

Declension

ōn-stem
	Singular
Nominative	*wikkjā
Genitive	*wikkjōn
	Singular	Plural
Nominative	*wikkjā	*wikkjōn
Accusative	*wikkjōn	*wikkjōn
Genitive	*wikkjōn	*wikkjōnō
Dative	*wikkjōn	*wikkjōm, *wikkjum
Instrumental	*wikkjōn	*wikkjōm, *wikkjum

Descendants

• Old Dutch: *wikka
  • Middle Dutch: wikke
    • Dutch: wikke, wieke, wik
    • Limburgish: wik
• Old Saxon: wikka
  • Middle Low German: wicke
    • Plautdietsch: Wekj
    • → Lithuanian: vikis
• Old High German: wicka, wiccha
  • Middle High German: wicke
    • Alemannic German: Wick, Wicke
    • Bavarian:

      Cimbrian: Wicke

    • German: Wicke
    • Central Franconian: Wick, Weck, Wöck

      Hunsrik: Wick

    • Luxembourgish: Wéck, Wick
    • Rhine Franconian:

      Palatine German: Wicke

  • → Old Czech: vika
    • Czech: vikev
  • → Hungarian: bükköny
    • → Romanian: bechen, bicăn, bichen, bichină (dialectal)
  • → Slovak: vika
  • → Old Polish: wika, wyka
    • Polish: wyka, wika
    • → Old East Slavic: вика (vika)
      • → Russian: ви́ка (víka)
      • → Ukrainian: ви́ка (výka)