-wich
English
suffix
Definitions
- (in placenames) Village; settlement; hamlet; trading centre.
Etymology
Inherited from Old English wīc (abode, dwelling place, camp, dwelling-place, dairy farm) derived from Latin vīcus (village, group of houses, street, quarter, estate, town, neighborhood, hamlet) derived from Proto-Indo-European *weyḱ- (village, house, household, settlement, homestead, extended family, clan, settle, enter, change).
Origin
Proto-Indo-European
*weyḱ-
Gloss
village, house, household, settlement, homestead, extended family, clan, settle, enter, change
Concept
Semantic Field
Social and political relations
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Kanji
村
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- bailiwick English
- vicus English
- vicinus Latin
- viculus Latin
- vicus Latin
- vīcus Latin
- vīcīnus Latin
- vico Italian
- bloemkoolwijk Dutch, Flemish
- buitenwijk Dutch, Flemish
- krottenwijk Dutch, Flemish
- sloppenwijk Dutch, Flemish
- stadswijk Dutch, Flemish
- tuinstadwijk Dutch, Flemish
- tuinwijk Dutch, Flemish
- wijk Dutch, Flemish
- wijkagent Dutch, Flemish
- wijkverpleegkunde Dutch, Flemish
- wijkverpleegkundige Dutch, Flemish
- wijkverpleegster Dutch, Flemish
- wijkverpleger Dutch, Flemish
- κατοικίζω Ancient Greek
- οἰκέτης Ancient Greek
- οἰκίζω Ancient Greek
- οἶκος Ancient Greek
- συνοικίζω Ancient Greek
- *we-wóyḱ-e, *wewóyḱe Proto-Indo-European
- *weyḱ- Proto-Indo-European
- *wihslijaną Proto-Germanic
- *wīhaz Proto-Germanic
- *wīkō Proto-Germanic
- wīc Old English
- उपविशति Sanskrit
- vík Old Norse
- *vьsь Proto-Slavic
- Hólmavík Icelandic
- Húsavík Icelandic
- vík Icelandic
- wijc Middle Dutch
- Vitorja Albanian
- amvisë Albanian
- zotëni Albanian
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌰𐌱𐌰 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌹𐌸𐌰 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐌽𐌰𐌽 Gothic
- 𐍅𐌴𐌹𐌷𐍃 Gothic
- wik Old Saxon
- vitg Romansh
- *uitśi-(ā) Proto-Albanian
- *wóikos Proto-Hellenic
- *wjäike Proto-Tocharian