Viking
English
/ˈvaɪkɪŋ/
noun
Definitions
- (historical) One of the Scandinavian or other Northern European seafaring warriors that raided (and then settled) the British Isles and other parts of Europe in the 8 centuries and, according to many historians, were the first Europeans to reach North America.
- (by extension) A stock character common in the fantasy genre, namely a barbarian, generally equipped with an axe or sword and a helmet adorned with horns.
- (colloquial) A Norseman mediaeval Scandinavian.
- (colloquial) An ethnic Swede, Norwegian, Dane, Icelander or Faroe Islander.
- (American football) A player on the Minnesota Vikings NFL team.
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Norse víkingr (rover, pirate, a freebooter, a Viking), vík (inlet, bay, cove, fjord) derived from Old English wīc (abode, dwelling place, camp, dwelling-place, dairy farm).
Origin
Old English
wīc
Gloss
abode, dwelling place, camp, dwelling-place, dairy farm
Concept
Semantic Field
The house
Ontological Category
Person/Thing
Emoji
Timeline
Distribution of cognates by language
Geogrpahic distribution of cognates
Cognates and derived terms
- -wich English
- Vikingism English
- Vikingness English
- Wick English
- bailiwick English
- vīcus Latin
- Viking Dutch, Flemish
- vikingo Spanish, Castilian
- *weyk- Proto-Indo-European
- vik Norwegian Bokmål
- viking Norwegian Bokmål
- *wīkingaz Proto-Germanic
- *wīkō Proto-Germanic
- Viking Swedish
- vik Swedish
- viking Swedish
- バイキング Japanese
- ヴァイキング Japanese
- vik Norwegian Nynorsk
- viking Norwegian Nynorsk
- wicing Old English
- wīc Old English
- Vík Old Norse
- vík Old Norse
- víkingr Old Norse
- vig Danish
- viking Danish
- *vitędzь Proto-Slavic
- Viking Czech
- vikingo Esperanto
- víking Catalan, Valencian
- vík Icelandic
- víkingur Icelandic
- vík Faroese
- 維京人 Chinese
- Viking Slovak
- vik Westrobothnian
- vîkîng Northern Kurdish
- فايكنق Hijazi Arabic