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weaky

  • /ˈwiki/ Standard
  • /ˈweɪki/ Standard
  • /ˈwiːkɪ/ Northern England
  • /ˈweːkɪ/ Northern England

Sounds like wiki, wakey

Where it comes from

From an unattested English dialectal word *weak (“moist; moisture”) + -y. Compare voky, woky.

*Weak is from Middle English *weke, *wak, *wok, from Old Norse vǫkr (“moist; damp; wet”) and Old Norse vǫkvi, vǫkva (“moisture; juice”), from Proto-Germanic *wakwaz (“moist”) and *wakwô, *wakwijô (“moisture; wetness; open water; icehole”), from Proto-Indo-European *wegʷ- (“wet”).

Cognates

Germanic cognates include Scots wak, wakke, waik (“moist; damp; wet", also "moisture; wetness”); Dutch wak (“icehole; blowhole”) and its earlier form, Middle Dutch wac (“flexible; liquid; moist; soft”); Middle Low German wake (“hole in the ice; open water in the ice”); Swedish vak (“hole in the ice”); Icelandic vökur (“moist”) and vökvi, vökva (“fluid”).

Indo-European cognates include Latin ūmeō (“to be wet, moist or damp”), whence English humid, humidity, and humidify; Ancient Greek ὑγρός (hugrós, “wet; moist; fluid”, adjective), whence English hygro-; Sanskrit उक्षति (ukṣáti, “to wet; moisten; sprinkle”).

adjective weakier · weakiest · weekey · weeky

  1. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal moist; damp; clammy
  2. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal juicy; mellow
  3. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal watery
  4. Northern England, Scotland, UK, dialectal pliant; soft

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@misc{weaky_2026,
  title = {weaky},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/weaky},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}