Noun: weke
Genitive
Dative
Sample Sentences
Nouns inflected like weke
syment,
cristened,
savete,
savyne,
sandal,
whelere,
scuage,
scluse,
sclise,
sclave,
schyft,
schuit,
schite,
schort,
schold,
schern,
smothe,
smethe,
smerte,
slutte, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Old English wēoce, from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”), see also West Frisian wjok, wjuk (“wing”), Dutch wiek (“wing; propeller, blade; wick”), German Wieche (“wisp; wick”). See: Old English Nouns '
wēoce', Dutch Nouns '
wiek', German Nouns '
Wieche'.
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