Masculine
Wickel
Meaning
- poultice, cataplasm, compress
- (colloquial) quarrel, dispute
Synonyms
Wickelband
Knatsch
Streitigkeit
Zankerei
Querelen
Klinsch
Wortwechsel
Frequency
Dialects
Basel-Landschaft
iiberschlaag
Basel-Landschaft
umschlaag
Data provided by: Deutsch-Schweizerdeutsches Wörterbuch
Hyphenated as
Wi‧ckel
Pronounced as (IPA)
/ˈvɪkəl/
Etymology
In summary
From Middle High German wickel, wickelin, from Old High German wickilī, wickilīn, diminutive of Old High German wiohha, from Proto-West Germanic *weukā (“flax bundle, wick”), from Proto-Indo-European *weg- (“to weave”).
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