vik

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See also: Vik, vík, Vík, вік, and вик

Faroese

Etymology

From Old Norse víkja (“to move, curve, bend”).

Pronunciation

Noun

vik n (genitive singular viks, plural vik)

  1. little bend
  2. movement to the side
    til viks
    apart, aside

Declension

Declension of vik
n3 singular plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative vik vikið vik vikini
accusative vik vikið vik vikini
dative viki vikinum vikum vikunum
genitive viks viksins vika vikanna

Norwegian Bokmål

Norwegian Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia no

Etymology 1

From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *wīkō.

Noun

vik f or m (definite singular vika or viken, indefinite plural viker, definite plural vikene)

  1. an inlet (arm of the sea)

Etymology 2

Verb

vik

  1. imperative of vike

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology 1

Norwegian Nynorsk Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia nn

From Old Norse vík.

Noun

vik f (definite singular vika, indefinite plural vikar or viker, definite plural vikane or vikene)

  1. an inlet (arm of the sea)

Etymology 2

From vike.

Noun

vik n (definite singular viket, indefinite plural vik, definite plural vika)

  1. a (small) deviation
  2. how bent the sawtooth is in relation to its sawblade
Derived terms

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Verb

vik

  1. inflection of vika and vike (strong verbs):
    1. present tense
    2. imperative
  2. imperative of vika and vikja (weak verbs)

References

Swedish

Swedish Wikipedia has an article on:
Wikipedia sv
två vikar (Bråviken och Slätbaken)

Etymology

From Old Norse vík, from Proto-Germanic *wīkō.

Pronunciation

  • Audio(file)
  • Rhymes: -iːk

Noun

vik c

  1. (geography) a bay, an inlet, (in the British sense) a creek (a (relatively long and narrow) inlet from the sea or a lake, as might instead and more specifically be called a fjord (“fjord”) if surrounded by cliffs (and substantially long))
    Synonym: (obsolete) baj
    Vi bor längst in i viken
    We live at the far end of the bay/creek
    segla in i viken
    sail into the bay/creek
    simma över viken
    swim across the bay/creek
    en mysig liten vik
    a cozy little bay (might imply a short, "stumpy" but still more or less vik-shaped bay in this case)
    Det bor några vikingar i viken
    There are some Vikings living in the bay/creek (possibly though controversially related)
  2. a gulf (in the names of some gulfs that are shaped more or less like a vik – the intuition is not normally of huge geographical features otherwise)

Usage notes

Might sometimes be a bit fuzzier or reflect conditions with less post-glacial rebound in place names. The description above matches the intuition otherwise.

Declension

Declension of vik 
Singular Plural
Indefinite Definite Indefinite Definite
Nominative vik viken vikar vikarna
Genitive viks vikens vikars vikarnas

Derived terms

Related terms

See also

Verb

vik

  1. imperative of vika

References

Anagrams

Zou

Pronunciation

Verb

vik

  1. (transitive) to launch

References

  • Lukram Himmat Singh (2013) A Descriptive Grammar of Zou, Canchipur: Manipur University, page 40
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