heikel

Mane

Hevwate

Werger

Notes

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(Îngilîzî)

delicate (requiring careful handling)
(Austria) picky, choosy

Pircarînî

Aargau (de)

sälzig

Aargau (de)

sämper

Basel-Landschaft (de)

bränselig

Basel-Landschaft (de)

bränzelig

Basel-Landschaft (de)

difisyyl

Sankt Gallen (de)

hòarkìl

Zürich (de)

heikel

Agahiyên ji hêla: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch

Wekî (IPA) tê bilêvkirin

/ˈhaɪ̯kəl/

Hevwate bi almanî

Hevwate bi Old English

Hevwate bi îngilîzî

Hevwate bi galîsî

Hevwate bi holendî

Hevwate bi Bavarian

Hevwate bi Swabian

Hevwate bi elmanîşî

Hevwate bi Saterfriesisch

Hevwate bi Bavarian

Hevwate bi îngilîzî

In summary

Probably a dialectal variant of Middle Low German ēkel (“disgusting”), from which German Ekel (“loathing, disgust, fastidiousness”). A connection to Proto-Germanic *aikulaz (“fearful”) has been suggested for both words; compare Old English acol (“burdensome, troublesome”), English ache, Galician extern (“to vex”), Dutch akelig (“terrible”). Heikel seems to have arisen out of 16th century Upper German dialects with a first meaning “easily disgusted, choosy”. Dialectal variants include Bavarian haglich and hoaglich (both akin to regional German heikelig or heiklig), Swabian haikel, Alemannic German heikχel, Saterland Frisian hekel (“fastidious with regard to food”). Others have suggested a derivation from Middle High German heien, heigen (“to cherish, harbour”) (compare Bavarian haigeln). The connection with the root of English irk (“to irritate, annoy, bother”), advanced by the Grimms, seems to be out of question today, even given the Upper German verb erkeln (“to loathe”).