u̯eik-1

    u̯eik-1

    English meaning: to choose, filter

    Deutsche Übersetzung: “aussondern”

    Material: O.Ind. vinákti, vivékti, vevekti ‘sondert, siebt, sichtet”, particle viktá-; Kaus. vecáyati; Av. ava-vaēk- “ausscheiden, aussuchen”; from the meaning “to gottesdienstlichen Zwecken aussondern” entspringt die of “Weihens”, wherefore here Lat. victima “ sacrificial animal, sacrifice, oblation”, being based on auf einemi-or u-stem, *vikti-s respectively *viktus “Weihung”; Goth. weihs “holy”, O.S. wīh- ds., O.H.G. wīh, wīhi ds., compare M.H.G. (ze) wīhen nahten , from which Ger. Weihnachten; O.Ice. vē- n. “Heiligtum, temple”, O.S. wīh m. “temple”, O.E. wēoh, wīg m. “Götterbild”; derived Vb. Goth. weihan, altIce. vīgja, O.S. wīhian , O.Fris. wīa, wīga, O.H.G. wīhen “weihen”; with intensive gemination Gmc. *wik-kan- “ magician “: O.E. wicca m. ds., wicce “Zauberin” (Eng. witch); md. wicken “conjure, perform magic”, wicker “ magician, Wahrsager”; without gemination: O.E. wigol “zum Wahrsagen gehörig”, wiglian “wahrsagen”, M.L.G. wickelen; eine variant *u̯eig- (?) in Umbr. eveietu “electum” (*ek-u̯eigētum?).

    References: WP. II 232, WH. II 782;

    See also: relationship to u̯eik-, u̯eigh- “bend” etc. is not ausgeschlossen.