weaky – English adjective declension

Adjective: weaky

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Adjectives inflected like weaky

syrupy, seemly, seggsy, snuffy, snippy, snitty, sniffy, snotty, snouty, snobby, snoozy, snooty, snazzy, snappy, snarky, snarly, snassy, snaily, snacky, snaggy, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)

Etymology

1. From an unattested English dialectal word *weak (“moist; moisture”) + -y. Compare voky, woky.
2. *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”).
3. Cognates
4. 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”).
5. 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”).

Verbs referencing "weaky"

English Adjectives humid.