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Per Vasmer, there are two etymologically separate verbs here, one with the approximate meaning "to droop, to wilt" and coming from the root of *nicь as above, and another with the approximate meaning "to arise, to penetrate" from a different root. The latter is cognate with Lithuaniannìkti(“to glow”) (1sg. ninkù, 1sg. past nikaũ), įnìktiį̃dárbą(“to plunge headlong into work”), apnìkti(“to attack”), etc., as well as Old Prussianneikaut(“to walk, to wander”), Latvianniktiês(“to impose oneself”), nikns(“fierce, wicked”), nàiks(“fierce, wicked, angry, quick”), and Ancient Greekνεῖκος(neîkos, “quarrel, dispute”), νεικέω(neikéō, “to quarrel, to attack”), νῑ́κη(nī́kē, “victory”), νῑκάω(nīkáō, “to win”).
Chernykh, P. Ja. (1993) “ни́кнуть”, in Историко-этимологический словарь русского языка [Historical-Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), 3rd edition, volumes 1 (а – пантомима), Moscow: Russian Lang., →ISBN, page 573
Derksen, Rick (2008) “*niknǫti”, in Etymological Dictionary of the Slavic Inherited Lexicon (Leiden Indo-European Etymological Dictionary Series; 4), Leiden, Boston: Brill, →ISBN, →ISSN, page 353
Vasmer, Max (1964–1973) “-ни́кнуть”, in Oleg Trubachyov, transl., Этимологический словарь русского языка [Etymological Dictionary of the Russian Language] (in Russian), Moscow: Progress
Trubachyov, Oleg, editor (1999), “*niknǫti”, in Этимологический словарь славянских языков [Etymological dictionary of Slavic languages] (in Russian), numbers 25 (*neroditi – *novotьnъ(jь)), Moscow: Nauka, →ISBN, page 114