weaky

Senso (Inglese)

1. Moist; damp; clammy.
2. Juicy; mellow.
3. Watery.
4. Pliant; soft.

Etimologia (Inglese)

Ereditato da inglese medio: *weke

Affine scozzese: wak

Affine olandese medio: wac

Affine olandese: wak

Affine Middle Low German: wake

Affine svedese: vak

Affine islandese: vökur

Affine islandese: vökvi

Affine latino: ūmeō

In summary

From English dialectal *weak (“moist, moisture”) + -y. *Weak derives 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”). Cognate with Scots wak, wakke, waik (“moist, damp, wet", also "moisture, wetness”), Middle Dutch wac (“flexible, liquid, moist, soft”), Modern Dutch wak (“ice-hole, blowhole”), Middle Low German wake (“hole in the ice, open water in the ice”), Swedish vak (“hole in the ice”), Icelandic vökur (“moist”), Icelandic vökvi, vökva (“fluid”), Latin ūmeō (“be wet, moist, damp”, verb). Compare also voky, woky.