{"collection":"bos","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bos/bos093.htm","path":"bos/bos093.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bos/bos093.htm","text":"Internet Book of Shadows, (Various Authors), [1999]\n \n \n Here is the complete expansion of the Indo-European root of the word\n \"witch\", from THE AMERICAN HERITAGE DICTIONARY OF INDO-EUROPEAN ROOTS,\n revised & edited by Calvert Watkins (Houghton Mifflin Co.: Boston,\n 1985; ISBN 0-395-36070-6): \n \n WEIK- [1]. Clan (social unit above the household). 1. Suffixed form\n *WEIK- SLA in Latin VILLA, country house, farm: VILLA, VILLAGE,\n VILLAIN, VILLANELLE, (VILLEIN); (BIDONVILLE). 2. Suffixed o-grade\n form *WOIK-O in: a. Latin VICUS, quarter or district of a town,\n neighborhood: (VICINAGE), VICINITY; b. Greek OIKOS, house, and its\n derivativ e OIKIA, dwelling: ANDROECIUM, AUTOECIOUS, DIOCESE,\n DIOECIOUS, DIOICOUS, ECESIS, ECOLOGY, ECONOMY, ECUMENICAL, \n HETEROECIOUS, MONOECIOUS, PARISH, TRIOUECIOUS. 3. Zero-grade from\n *WIK- in Sanskrit VIS- dwelling, house, with derivative VAISYAH,\n settler: VAISYA. \n \n WEIK- [2]. In words connectid with magic and religious notions (in\n Germanic and Latin). 1. Germanic suffixed form *WIH-L- in Old English\n WIGLE, divination, sorcery, akin to the Germanic source of Old French\n GUILE, cunning trickery: GUILE. 2. Germanic expressive form *WIKK-\n in: a. Old English WICCA, wizard, and WICCE, witch: WITCH; b. Old\n English WICCIAN, to cast a spell: BEWITCH. 3. Possible suffixed\n zero-grade form *WIK-T-IMA in latin VICTIMA, animal used as sacrifice,\n victim (although this may belong to another root *[SHWA]WEK- not\n otherwise represented in English): VICTIM. \n \n WEIK- [3]. To be like. 1. Suffixed variant form *EIK-ON- in Greek\n EIKON, likeness, image: ICON, (ICONIC), ICONO-; ANISEIKONIA. 2.\n Prefixed and suffixed zero-grade form *N-WIK-ES, not like (*N-, not),\n in greek AIKES, unseemly: AECIUM. \n \n WEIK- [4]. Also WEIG-. To bend, wind. I. Form WEIG-. 1. Germanic\n *WIK- in: a. Old English WICE, wych elm (having pliant branches): WYCH\n ELM; b. Swedish VIKER, willow twig, wand, akin to the Scandinavian\n source of Middle English WIKER, wicker: WICKER; c. Old Norse vikja, to\n bend, turn, probably akin to the Scandinavian source of Old Nort h\n French WIKET, wicket (< \"door that turns?): WICKET. 2. Germanic\n *WAIKWAZ in: a. Old Norse VEIKR, pliant: WEAK; b. Dutch WEEK, weak,\n soft: WEAKFISH. 3. Germanic *WIKON-, \"a turning,\" series, in Old \n English WICU, WICE, week: WEEK. II. Form *WEIK-. Zero-grade form\n *WIK- in: a. Latin VIX (genetive VICUS), turn, situation, change:\n VICAR (VICARIOUS), VICE[3]; VICISSITUDE; b. Latin VICIA, vetch (<\n \"twining plant\"): VETCH. \n \n WEIK- [5]. To fight, conquer. 1. Germanic *WIK- in Old Norse VIGR,\n able in battle: WIGHT[2]. 2. Nasalized zero-grade form *WI-N-K- in\n Latrin VINCERE (past participle VICTUS), to conquer: VANQUISH, VICTOR,\n VINCIBLE; CONVINCE, EVICT. \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n Last amended June 11, 1989 -- Page NEXTRECORD \n \n \n 356","title":"Internet Book of Shadows: Etymology of \"Wicca\"","type":"page"}